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
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.