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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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.
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.