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
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!