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
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Existence begins in every instant.
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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.