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
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
Pity makes suffering contagious.
Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
Christianity is called the religion of pity.
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
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.
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.