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
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
The doer alone learneth.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
That which does not destroy, strengthens.
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.