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
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes about
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
There is always some madness in love.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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.