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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.
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.