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 little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.