Quotes About Philosophy

The higher philosophical man has solitude not because he wishes to be alone, but because he is something that finds no equals.

What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity.

synthetic judgments a priori should not be possible at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments.

The seventh way to be noble: always being disguised, for the higher the type, the more a man requires an incognito. If God existed, he would be obliged to show himself to the world only as a man.

I pray God to deliver me from God !

We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our 'empty space,' an increase in our 'waste.

Innermost suffering makes the mind noble. Only that deepest, slow and extended pain that burns inside of us as firewood forces us to go down into our depths… I doubt that such a pain could ever make us feel better, but I know that it makes us deeper beings. It makes us ask more rigorous and deeper questions to ourselves… Trust in life has disappeared. Life itself has become a problem.

Oh, como somos felizes, nós que procuramos o conhecimento, se não quebrarmos o silêncio prematuramente!...

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

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Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.-

We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Life is a dark chain of events.

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!

Man is beast and superbeast; the higher man is inhuman and superhuman: these belong together. With every increase of greatness and height in man, there is also an increase in depth and terribleness: one ought not to desire the one without the other— or rather: the more radically one desires the one, the more radically one achieves precisely the other.

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

Do not let yourself be deceived: great spirits are sceptical. Zarathustra is a sceptic. The power, the freedom that comes from the strength and super-strength of spirit, proves itself through scepticism.

This- is now my way,- where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me the way. For the way- it does not exist!

There are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic; and rolling together all the woe of the world -- who could dare to decide whether its sight would necessarily seduce us and compel us to feel pity and thus double this woe?