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
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.
The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.