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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Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.
One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Every profound spirit needs a mask.
Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.