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
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary
The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.