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
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless...
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.