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
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 ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.