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
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.
Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.