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
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?
I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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.