Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschewas a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1844
CityRocken, Germany
CountryGermany
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.