Youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age 24. 

His work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

Occupation
Philosopher, Cultural critic, Poet
Born
15 October 1844 Röcken (near Lützen), Saxony, Prussia
 



👱👉  Let’s be honest what doesn’t kill you, actually leaves you crippled.

👱👉  It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

👱👉  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

👱👉  I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

👱👉  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

👱👉  It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

👱👉  There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

👱👉  Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

👱👉  You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

👱👉  In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.




👱👉  God dead but considering the state of the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
 
👱👉  Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

👱👉  There are no facts, only interpretations.

👱👉  We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

👱👉  The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

👱👉  I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

👱👉  No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

👱👉  When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

👱👉  The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.




👱👉  Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
 
👱👉  Man is the cruelest animal.

👱👉  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.

👱👉  Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

👱👉  Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

👱👉  Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

👱👉  Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

👱👉  The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

👱👉  There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.




👱👉  He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
 
👱👉  All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

👱👉  All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

👱👉  In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

👱👉  That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

👱👉  All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

👱👉  Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

👱👉  What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.

👱👉  Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.




👱👉  Without music, life would be a mistake.
 
👱👉  After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

👱👉  Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

👱👉  The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

👱👉  The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

👱👉  Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

👱👉  One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

👱👉  Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

👱👉  It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.




👱👉  A Casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
 
👱👉 Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

👱👉  Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

👱👉  What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

👱👉  The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

👱👉  Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.

👱👉  Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

👱👉  I am one thing, my writings are another.

👱👉  Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

👱👉  One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

👱👉  Plato was a bore.




👱👉  Woman was God’s second mistake.
 
👱👉  What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

👱👉  He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

👱👉  A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

👱👉  The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

👱👉  The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

👱👉  There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

👱👉  Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

👱👉  Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

👱👉  Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.

👱👉  Remorse.– Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.




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