Quotes About Philosophy

You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

A pillar of trash once affirmed of itself (unwittingly) and others I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience, most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

A arte é o grande estimulante da vida

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

El hombre es un dios cuando sueña y un mendigo cuando reflexiona

It is beautiful to unfold our souls And our short lives

In gods and godhead only he can truly believe who himself is godlike.

Never since the sun had stood in the firmament and the planets revolved around him had it been perceived that man's existence centres in his head, i.e., in Thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Convictions are prisons.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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

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

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

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