Quotes About Philosophy

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

There are people who are opposed to all philosophy and one does well to listen to them.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil.

Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things.

If one had the smallest vestige of superstition in one, it would hardly be possible to set aside completely the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an almighty power.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables.

Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

Um allein zu leben, muss man ein Thier oder ein Gott sein - sagt Aristoteles. Fehlt der dritte Fall: man muss Beides sein - Philosoph....

Boldness is as natural an attribute of thought as thought is a natural attribute of freedom. . . . Man would still prefer to will Nothingness than not to will.

It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous—both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and, in the process, wronged each other, as only brothers do.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

Mutter ich bin dumm.

Así me dijo el demonio una vez: «También Dios tiene su infierno: es su amor a los hombres.»

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet become conscious of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy; around the demi-god, into a satyr play; and around God--what? perhaps into world?

you had to become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities. Formerly they were your masters: but they should be merely your tools along with other tools.

Sudovi, vrednosni sudovi o životu, za ili protiv, ne mogu naposletku nikada biti istiniti: oni imaju vrednost samo kao simptomi, oni dolaze u obzir samo kao simptomi - takvi sudovi su sami po sebi budalaštine.

And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, you love, shall it itself become! and verily, for your bliss...

his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.

There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge