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
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
The free man is a warrior.
"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves
One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking