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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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.
A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.