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
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner
Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.