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
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
One should steal only where one cannot rob.
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
One should never know too precisely whom one has married
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.