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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...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory...
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.