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 best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .