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
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.
I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.