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
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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!