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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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Woman was God's second mistake.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Only sick music makes money today.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.