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
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
I am one thing, my writings are another.
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.