Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born October 15, 1844 in Röcken (near Leipzig), Prussia. German philosopher, representative of irrationalism. He sharply criticized the religion, culture and morality of his time and developed his own ethical theory. Nietzsche's philosophy had a great influence on the formation of existentialism and postmodernism, and also became quite popular in literary and artistic circles. The interpretation of his works is quite difficult and still causes a lot of controversy. The author of the works - “The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism”, “Human, Too Human. A book for free minds”, “Beyond good and evil. Prelude to the philosophy of the future”, “Twilight of idols, or how to philosophize with a hammer”, “Reflections in a dressing gown”, etc. He died on August 25, 1900 in a psychiatric hospital in Weimar, Germany.
Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
- Fact is always stupid.
- Be who you are!
- Pure spirit is pure lies.
- Woman is the second mistake of God.
- You go to a woman - take a whip.
- The martyrs only harmed the truth.
- Need new ears for new music.
- Without music life would be a mistake.
- Faith saves, therefore it lies.
- A philologist is a teacher of slow reading.
- No winner believes in chance.
- What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
- There is no beautiful surface without terrible depth.
- Facts do not exist - there are only interpretations.
- You have to worship proudly if you can't be an idol.
- In every religion, the religious person is an exception.
- A real man hides a child who wants to play.
- The best writer will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
- To laugh means to be malevolent, but with a clear conscience.
- When skepticism and languor mate, mysticism arises.
- Long and great sufferings bring up a tyrant in a person.
- The dogma of the “immaculate conception”?
- Death is close enough to not be afraid of life.
- Very smart people are distrusted if they see their embarrassment.
- Moral people are self-satisfied with remorse.
- Majestic natures suffer from doubts about their own greatness.
- There is a degree of inveterate deceit, which is called "clear conscience."
- For a stupid forehead, a clenched fist is rightfully needed, in the form of an argument.
- We grow cold towards what we have learned as soon as we share it with others.
- Whoever feels the lack of free will is mentally ill; whoever denies it is stupid.
- When the gratitude of many to one casts aside all shame, glory arises.
- Buddhism does not promise, but keeps its word; Christianity promises everything, but does not keep its word.
- A bad conscience is a tax that the invention of a good conscience has imposed on people.
- Spiritualizes the heart; but the spirit sits and inspires courage in danger. Oh, this language!
- Belief in cause and effect is rooted in the strongest of instincts: the instinct for revenge.
- The danger of the wise is that he is most susceptible to the temptation to fall in love with the unreasonable.
- The desire for greatness gives out with the head: whoever has greatness, he strives for kindness.
- Mystical explanations are considered profound. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
- Only man resists the direction of gravity: he constantly wants to fall - up.
- On the other side of the North, on the other side of the ice, on the other side today is our life, our happiness.
- Whoever wants to justify existence must also be able to be God's advocate before the devil.
- Each church is a stone on the tomb of the God-Man: it certainly wants Him not to rise again.
- The supreme thesis: "God forgives the penitent" - the same in translation: forgives the one who submits to the priest.
- The word "Christianity" is based on a misunderstanding; in fact, there was one Christian, and he died on the cross.
- There is already not enough love and goodness in the world to be lavished on imaginary beings.
- Love, perhaps, your neighbor as yourself. But above all, be those who love themselves.
- A person forgets his guilt when he confesses it to another, but this latter usually does not forget it.
- Blood is the worst witness of truth; they poison the purest teaching with blood to the point of madness and hatred of hearts.
- Whoever wants to become a leader of people must for a good period of time be known among them as their most dangerous enemy.
- A man who has never thought about money, about honor, about acquiring influential connections - how can he know people?
- Whose thought at least once crossed the bridge leading to mysticism does not return from there without thoughts not marked with stigmata.
- I distinguish among philosophizers two kinds of people: some are always thinking about their defense, others about attacking their enemies.
- And truth requires, like all women, that her lover become a liar for her sake, but it is not her vanity that requires it, but her cruelty.
- Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman, a rope over an abyss. What is valuable in a person is that he is a bridge, not a goal.
- Philosophy opens to man a refuge where no tyranny can penetrate, a valley of the inner world, a labyrinth of the heart, and this irritates tyrants.
- We praise what pleases us: that is, when we praise, we praise our own taste - isn't that a sin against all good taste?
- Perfect knowledge of necessity would eliminate all "must" - but it would also comprehend the necessity of "should" as a consequence of ignorance.
- In the heat of the struggle one can sacrifice one's life: but he who conquers is devoured by the temptation to throw his life away from himself. Contempt for life is inherent in every victory.
- You lovers of knowledge! What have you done so far out of love for knowledge? Have you already committed theft or murder to find out what is in the soul of a thief and a murderer?
- The love of life is almost the opposite of the love of longevity. All love thinks of the moment and eternity, but never of duration.
- Fever sufferers see only the phantoms of things, and those with a normal temperature see only the shadows of things; while both need the same words.
- God Himself cannot exist without wise people", - said Luther, and with full right; but "God can exist even less without stupid people" - this Luther did not say!
- Heroism - such is the mood of a person striving for a goal, in addition to which he no longer counts at all. Heroism is the good will to absolute self-destruction.
- Without the dogmas of faith, no one could live even a moment! But these dogmas have by no means been proved by this. Life is not an argument at all; among the conditions of life could be delusion.
- An evil god is needed no less than a good one - after all, you owe your own existence by no means to tolerance and philanthropy. What is the use of a god who does not know anger, envy, cunning, mockery, vindictiveness and violence?
- The teaching and the apostle who does not see the weakness of his teaching, his religion, etc., blinded by the authority of the teacher and reverence for him, usually has more power than the teacher. Never has the influence of man and his works grown without blind disciples.
- Marriage is invented for mediocre people who are mediocre both in great love and in great friendship - therefore, for the majority: but also for those quite rare people who are capable of both love and friendship.
- Whoever is able to strongly feel the look of a thinker cannot escape the terrible impression that animals make, whose eye slowly, as if on a rod, bulges out of the head and looks around.
- Whoever has an aversion to the sublime, not only "yes", but also "no" seems too pathetic - he does not belong to the negative minds, and, if he happens to be in their way, he suddenly stops and runs away - into the thicket of skepticism.
- There is nothing in my head but personal morality, and to make myself entitled to it is the essence of all my historical questions about morality. It is terribly difficult to create such a right for yourself.
- Weird! As soon as I keep silent about some thought and stay away from it, this very thought will certainly appear to me embodied in the guise of a man, and now I have to be nice to this "angel of God"!
- To hurt the one we love is sheer hell. In relation to ourselves, this is the state of heroic people: extreme violence. The desire to fall into the opposite extreme applies here.
- Virtue only gives happiness and a certain bliss to those who firmly believe in their virtue - not at all to the more refined souls, whose virtue consists in a deep distrust of themselves and of all virtue. In the end, here, too, "faith makes blessed"! - and not, carefully note this, virtue!
- The founder of Christianity believed that people did not suffer from anything more than from their sins: this was his delusion, the delusion of one who felt himself without sin, who lacked experience here.
- If God wanted to become an object of love, then he should first renounce the office of judge administering justice: a judge, and even a merciful judge, is not an object of love.
His books have survived their era, and his thoughts have long been dismantled into quotes.
On Truth and Reason
1. And you tell me, friends, that there can be no disputes about tastes and views? But all life is a dispute about tastes and views.
2. Beliefs are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
3. In the end, no one can learn more from things, including books, than he already knows.
About books
4. Common books are always stinking books: the smell of little people clings to them.
5. The book that you love should not be borrowed, it should be had.
About time and history
6. He who does not have two-thirds of the time for himself is a slave.
7. We are the heirs of the vivisection of conscience and self-crucifixion that took place over two millennia.
8. We do not live for the future. We live to keep our past.
9. The time for small politics is coming to an end. Already the next century will lead to a struggle for dominance on earth.
About a human
10. People find their own life much more enjoyable if they stop comparing it to other people's lives.
11. God is dead: now we want the superman to live.
12. I was looking for great people, but I always found only monkeys of their ideal.
13. In respectable people, the last thing that repels me is the evil that they carry in themselves.
About power
14. Whoever wants to become a leader of people must for a good period of time be known among them as their most dangerous enemy.
15. To be great is to give direction.
16. The domination of virtue can only be achieved by the same means by which domination is generally achieved, and in any case not through virtue.
17. Wherever I found life, I also found the will to power.
About good and evil
18. The most erroneous conclusions of people are the following: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to it.
19. I hate people who can't forgive.
About love
20. There are two ways to save you from suffering: quick death and lasting love.
21. “Love your neighbor” - this means, first of all: “Leave your neighbor alone!” “And it is precisely this detail of virtue that is the most difficult.
22. The demand for reciprocity is not a demand for love, but for vanity.
23. A good marriage is based on a talent for friendship.
The best quotes from one of the greatest and most controversial thinkers in human history
“He who knows how to breathe the air of my compositions knows that this is the air of heights, healthy air. You have to be created for it, otherwise you risk catching a cold. Ice close by, monstrous loneliness—but how serenely all things rest in the light of day! How easy it is to breathe!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Recently, the image of Friedrich Nietzsche has again become significant for most thinking people, but there is still no fair understanding of the impact that he had, has and will have on the development of the entire world civilization. Unrecognized by his contemporaries, even after his death, Nietzsche was under an official or unspoken ban in many countries for a long time, and for the longest time in our country. For many, his name is still associated with the ideology of fascism, Satanism or other radical teachings.
On the other hand, a very "advanced" public considers his work an expression of indestructible romanticism, full of contradictions and utopian ideals, or the delirium of a madman, monotonously referring to the penultimate line in his biography.
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is like a good wine, which should be taken in small portions in order to understand the wisdom inherent in them.
So, here are the philosophical thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche, which will help you look at the world a little differently:
Life principles
About love
About a woman
About religion
About morality
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a German thinker, classical philologist, composer, poet, creator of an original philosophical doctrine, which is emphatically not academic in nature and, in part, therefore, is widespread, going far beyond the scientific and philosophical community.
Don't be afraid to lose someone. You will not lose the one you need in life. Those who are sent to you for experience are lost. Those who are sent to you by fate remain.
You can always close your eyes to what you see, but you cannot close your heart to what you feel...
Let them say anything to hurt me. They know me too little to beknow what really hurts me.
Don't think too much. So you create problems that were not there in the first place.
You enter into marriage: see that it does not become a conclusion for you!
The happiness of a man is called: "I want." The happiness of a woman is called: "He wants."
Where you can no longer love, there you need to pass by.
Not that you deceived me, but that I can no longer trust you shocked me.
The danger of the wise is that he is most susceptible to the temptation to fall in love with the unreasonable.
You can't be free from what you're running from.
A man is a danger and a game. Therefore, he needs a woman, for she is a dangerous toy.
The most subtle humor causes the most imperceptible smile.
No winner believes in chance!
Iron said to the magnet: “Most of all I hate you because you attract, not having enough strength to drag you along!”
People freely lie with their mouths, but the mug still tells the truth ...
I came to help you, and you complain that I don't want to cry with you.
Beware of the good and the righteous! They love to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves.
Whoever fights monsters should be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.
A woman perceives a man as a friend if he is not able to achieve more.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , Prussia - August 25, 1900, Weimar, Germany) - German philosopher, poet, composer, culturologist, representative of irrationalism. He sharply criticized the religion, culture and morality of his time and developed his own ethical theory. Nietzsche was a literary rather than an academic philosopher, and his writings are aphoristic in nature. Nietzsche's philosophy had a great influence on the formation of existentialism and postmodernism, and also became quite popular in literary and artistic circles. The interpretation of his works is quite difficult and still causes a lot of controversy.
Born in Röcken (near Leipzig, eastern Germany), the son of a Lutheran pastor, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche (1813-1849). While studying at the gymnasium, he showed considerable talent for philology and music. In 1864-69 Nietzsche studied theology and classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. In the same period, he became acquainted with the works of Schopenhauer and became an admirer of his philosophy. Nietzsche's development was also favorably influenced by his friendship with Richard Wagner, which lasted for many years. At the age of 23, he was drafted into the Prussian army and enrolled in horse artillery, but, having received an injury, was demobilized. Three years later, he will enthusiastically accept the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) and volunteer to go to the front.
Nietzsche was a brilliant student and gained an excellent reputation in scientific circles. Thanks to this, already in 1869 he received the post of professor of classical philology at the University of Basel (at the age of only 25 years). There he worked for about 10 years, despite numerous illnesses. The issue of Nietzsche's citizenship still causes sharp controversy. According to one source, he remained stateless after renouncing his Prussian citizenship in 1869; however, other sources state that Nietzsche became a Swiss citizen.
