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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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary...
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
One does not kill by anger but by laughter.
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.