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
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
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.
The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.