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
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.