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
No victor believes in chance.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.