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
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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.