Quotes About Philosophy

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom.

Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian

It is not true that the unconscious goal in the evolution of every conscious being (animal, man, mankind, etc) is its 'highest happiness': the case, on the contrary, is that every stage of evolution possesses a special and incomparable happiness neither higher nor lower but simply its own. Evolution does not have happiness in view, but evolution and nothing else.

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Deutschland über alles - I fear that was the end of German Philosophy.

What does Nihilism mean?—That the highest values are losing their value.

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.

To impose the character of being upon becoming is the supreme test of power.

Ich will keinen Autor mehr lesen, dem man anmerkt, er wollte ein Buch machen; sondern nur jene, deren Gedanken unversehens ein Buch werden.

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.

Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.

He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.

Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far — and the ascetic ideal offered man meaning!

Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)

the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.