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
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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.