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
Only sick music makes money today.
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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.