Quotes About Philosophy

WHEN Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart - and rising one morning with the dawn, he went before the sun, and spoke thus to it:

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

He who does not find greatness in God finds it nowhere. He must either deny it or create it.

Humanity does not strive for happiness; only the English do.

To judge the value of life by whether we find it now unpleasant or not — can a more wild, extravagant vanity be imagined?

What is the sign of every literary decadence ? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole—the whole is no longer a whole.

We are primordially illogical and hence unjust beings and can recognise this fact: this is one of the greatest and most baffling discords of existence.

Lucrurile supreme trebuie s? aib? o alt? origine, una proprie lor, - ele nu ar putea lua naÅŸtere din aceast? lume efemer?, înÅŸel?toare, iluzorie ÅŸi mizer?, din aceast? harababur? de am?giri ÅŸi pofte!

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them...

For the indignant man, and he who perpetually tears and lacerates himself with his own teeth (or, in place of himself, the world, God, or society), may indeed, morally speaking, stand higher than the laughing and self-satisfied satyr, but in every other sense he is the more ordinary, more indifferent, and less instructive case. And no one is such a LIAR as the indignant man. 27.

No matter how strongly a thing may be believed, strength of belief is no criterion of truth.' But what is truth? Perhaps a kind of belief that has become a condition of life?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.--

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

Man's complete lack of responsibility, for his behavior and for his nature, is the bitterest drop which the man of knowledge must swallow.

This cup wants to become empty again, and Zarathustra wants to become human again.

We have stopped deriving humanity from 'spirit', from 'divinity', we have stuck human beings back among the animals. We see them as the strongest animals because they are the most cunning: one consequence of this is their spirituality.

Nobody is responsible for being here in the first place, for being constituted in such and such a way, for being in these circumstances, in this environment. The fatality of our essence cannot be separated from the fatality of all that was and will be.

He fascinated because he touched on the agonal instinct of the Hellenes – he introduced a variation into the wrestling-matches among the youths and young men. Socrates was also a great erotic.

the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.

Wouldn't thinking have put over on us the biggest hoax yet?

All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth.