Quotes About Philosophy

A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!

All the means by which one has so far attempted to make mankind moral were through and through immoral.

The fool interrupts — The writer of this book is no misanthrope; today one pays too dearly for hatred of man.

Two thousand years have come and gone—and not a single new god!

A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos – at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.

Religions belong to the rabble; after coming into contact with religious people I always feel that I must wash my hands.

Apart from the ascetic ideal, man, the human animal, had no meaning so far. His existence on earth contained no goal; "why man at all? – was a question without an answer…

Accordingly, I do not believe that an impulse to knowledge is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument.

In fact, for the longest time on Earth, philosophy would not have been at all possible without an ascetic cover and costume, without an ascetic misunderstanding.

as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to creation of the world, the will to the causa prima.

Thus spoke the devil to me once: God too has his hell: it is his love of man....And most recently I heard him speak this word: God is dead: God died of his pity for man. —On the Pitying

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Thus spoke the devil to me once: 'God too has his hell: it is his love of man.'...And most recently I heard him speak this word: 'God is dead: God died of his pity for man.

Uno va dal prossimo perché cerca se stesso, e l'altro perché vorrebbe perdersi. Il vostro cattivo amore per voi stessi fa della solitudine una prigione per voi.

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;

The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The

Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his 'Hazar,'—his dynasty of a thousand years. All

it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?

I" you say and are proud of this word. But what is greater is that in which you do not want to believe – your body and its great reason. It does not say I, but does I. What

Brave and creative men never make pleasure and pain ultimate questions– they are secondary conditions: both of them must be desired when one will attain to something. It is a sign of fatigue and illness in these metaphysicians and religious men, that they should press questions of pleasure and pain into the foreground.

The psychological problem apparent in the Zarathustra type is how someone who to an unprecedented degree says no and does no to everything everyone has said yes to so far, – how somebody like this can nevertheless be the opposite of a no-saying spirit

there are no moral facts at all.

what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.