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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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.