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
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
Remain true to the earth.
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.