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
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.