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
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.