Quotes About Philosophy

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: Even God has his hell: it is his love for man. And lately did I hear him say these words: God is dead: of his pity for man has God died.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….I doubt that such pain makes us 'better'; but I know that it makes us more profound.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

The danger in happiness - Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on I'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a left. Truth can stand on one leg, to be sure; but with two it can walk and get about.

The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new law-tablets.

So long as the priest, that denier, calumniator and poisoner of life by profession, still counts as a higher kind of human being, there can be no answer to the question: what is truth? One has already stood truth on its head when the conscious advocate of denial and nothingness counts as the representative of 'truth

One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.