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
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!