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
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.