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
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight....
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.