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
Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins
Energy wasted on negative ends.
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
In the end one only experiences oneself.
In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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.
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.