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
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.