Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm 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...
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He who makes no secret of himself, enrages: so much reason have you for fearing nakedness.
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A very popular error -- having the courage of one's convictions; Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.
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He who has a why can endure any how
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however no objection to marriage but to modernity
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Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
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A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends.
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The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.
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The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness
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Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them
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What I understand by ""philosopher"": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.
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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.