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
He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
On every parable you ride to every truth.
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!