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
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
Everything matters. Nothing's important.
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.