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
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!