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.
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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.
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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.
Only sick music makes money today.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.