Quotes About Philosophy

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

Hence the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire...

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness!

Cuando quieren elevarse, ustedes miran hacia arriba; yo miro hacia abajo porque ya me encuentro en las alturas

Life is a flat circle.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…

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

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

Why? said Zarathustra. Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

El cinismo es la única fuerza bajo la cual las almas vulgares rozan lo que se llama sinceridad»

Was it not because I loved man all-too-much? Now I love God. man I love not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing. Love of man would kill me.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.