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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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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.