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
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.