Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm 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...
ambition among aphorism book forms master says sentences ten
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
conscience sting
The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.
dog gnawing mere sting
The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness
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You flow for me almost too violently, fountain of pleasure. And often you empty the cup again by wanting to fill it.
against death war
War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity
hair storm womanhood
When I think of women, it is their hair which first comes to my mind. The very idea of womanhood is a storm of hair. . . .
artist chooses mode
The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.
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What I understand by ""philosopher"": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them
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To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.
access books experience including lacks nobody
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.
beneath cannot ought sees wage
Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.
cause good war
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
attack courage error matter popular
A very popular error -- having the courage of one's convictions; Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.