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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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.