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
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.