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
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.
We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.
We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.