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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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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.