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
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
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!
He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.