Quotes About Philosophy

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. *** Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in another or better life.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.