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
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy...
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
A married philosopher is a comic character.
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
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.