Friedrich Nietzsche Biography

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Born asFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Occup.Philosopher
FromGermany
BornOctober 15, 1844
Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia
DiedAugust 25, 1900
Weimar, Saxony, German Empire
Aged55 years
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philologist, yet that in the future is best known for his thoughtful thoughts. He ended up being teacher of classic philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland at the age of 24, but his initial book, Pass away Geburt where Tragödie (1872), which he devoted to composer Richard Wagner, had a frustrating function. He continued creating a variety of unusual and revolutionary works, typically uncertain, typically shared in the form of adages, which attacks truths in the Western intellectual practice. Among the assaults he was God, morality, truth as well as freedom. In Ecce Homo, his own assessment of himself, he explained himself as the initial umoralist. The author Richard Wagner and theorist Arthur Schopenhauer worked out an important very early impact on Nietzsche, however he freed himself later from their reasoning as well as established it additionally. Nietzsche better created consisting of the principle of nihilism, as well as would certainly be of excellent value for European ideology and also literature around the turn of the century.

His most famous books is Additionally sprach Zarathustra as well as Jenseits von Gut und Bose. Programmatically of Nietzsche's expression Gott ist toddler (God is dead). This expression comes verbatim from the text "tolle Mensch There" from 1889 ("That crazy guy") but are stated in section 2 of Additionally sprach Zarathustra (1883-85), as part of a dialogue in between the protagonist as well as an old man. After a malfunction in Turin, Nietzsche came to be ridiculous as well as was looked after by his sibling, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. His sis, the widow of the anti-Semitic agitator Bernhard Förster (dedicated suicide in 1889), Nietzsche Archive developed as well as added to his bro's name was known in Europe, yet additionally altered parts of his ideology to make it better match the their very own political viewpoints. In 1930 she came to be a member of the NSDAP and also was at some point excellent contact with Adolf Hitler, with the result that Nietzsche soon came to be a type husfilosof in the Third Reich.

Our collection contains 186 quotes who is written / told by Friedrich, under the main topics: Art - Love - Power - Forgiveness - Women.

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186 Famous quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Small: Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"
Small: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you"
Small: What doesnt kill us makes us stronger
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"
Small: Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless
"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless"
Small: Love is blind friendship closes its eyes
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"
Small: The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it"
Small: Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"
Small: It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"
Small: Art raises its head where creeds relax
"Art raises its head where creeds relax"
Small: For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child"
Small: It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it every complaint already contains revenge
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"
Small: One has to pay dearly for immortality one has to die several times while one is still alive
"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive"
Small: These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do
"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"
Small: Wit is the epitaph of an emotion
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion"
Small: Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day"
Small: One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth"
Small: Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now con
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride"
Small: Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself"
Small: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike tha
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"
Small: The future influences the present just as much as the past
"The future influences the present just as much as the past"
Small: The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"
Small: The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and
"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
Small: Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined"
Small: If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you"
Small: God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight
"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight"
Small: In heaven, all the interesting people are missing
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"
Small: To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
Small: And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
Small: The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"
Small: Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they
"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"
Small: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star"
Small: There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from ins
"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane"
Small: Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'"
Small: For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"
Small: Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest"
Small: Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"
Small: Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect"
Small: Idleness is the parent of psychology
"Idleness is the parent of psychology"
Small: I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think
"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think"
Small: Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler"
Small: A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a li
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"
Small: Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - healt
"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"
Small: The lie is a condition of life
"The lie is a condition of life"
Small: This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver
"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver"
Small: The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception"
Small: In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame
"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"
Small: He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred tim
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
Small: One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed"
Small: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man"
Small: We have art in order not to die of the truth
"We have art in order not to die of the truth"
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