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
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.