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
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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.