Quotes About Philosophy

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment—but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

When Zarathustra was alone… he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

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.