Quotes About Philosophy

To die proudly when it is not possible to live proudly anymore. Death, chosen of one's own free will, death at the the right time, with brightness and cheer, done in the midst of children and witnesses, so that it is still really possible to take one's leave, when the one taking leave IS STILL THERE, with a real assessment of what one has achieved and willed, a Summation of life — all the opposite of the pitiful and appalling comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

The disappointed man speaks.—I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal.

Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ.

Everything straight lieth," murmured the dwarf, contemptuously. "All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.

Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected", Nietzsche asked in his book The Gay Science, "that he who wants the greatest possible amount of one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other?

I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these arid words and shakes and flaps in them-- and I hardly know anymore when I look at it how I could ever have felt so happy when I caught this bird.

Ng??i ta sát h?i không ph?i b?ng cÆ¡n ph?n ná»™ Ä'iên cu?ng, mà chính b?ng ti?ng c??i

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly acts and comes-to-be but never is, as Heraclitus teaches it, is a terrible, paralyzing thought. Its impact on men can most nearly be likened to the sensation during an earthquake when one loses one's familiar confidence in a firmly grounded earth. It takes astonishing strength to transform this reaction into its opposite, into sublimity and the feeling of blessed astonishment. (p.58)

I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?

Have I been understood??Dionysus against the crucified one...

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which German philosophy--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.

The history of moral feelings is the history of an error, an error called "responsibility", which in turn rests on an error called "freedom of the will".

Anlam?yorlar beni, bu kulaklara göre a??z deÄŸilim ben.

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

To 'want' something, to 'strive' after something to have an 'aim' or a 'wish' in my mind — I know none of this from experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a distant future! as upon a calm sea: no sigh of longing makes a ripple on its surface. I have not the slightest wish that anything should be otherwise than it is: I do not want myself different than I am. But in this matter I have always been the same. I have never had a desire.

The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, humanity.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.