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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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.