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
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.