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
Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?
A vocation is the backbone of life.
Yes, life is a woman!
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.