Quotes About Philosophy

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

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

Brave and creative men never consider pleasure and pain as ultimate values—they are epiphenomena: one must desire both if one is to achieve anything.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Human existence basically is??a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody now could endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Morality negates life.

Why are we not satisfied when life mirrors itself peacefully in a deep lake? …How seldom do we now meet a person who can keep living so peacefully and cheerfully with himself even amidst the turmoil, saying to himself like Goethe: 'The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.

Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.

My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.