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
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.