Quotes About Philosophy

I am by far the most terrible human being that has existed so far; this does not preclude the possibility that I shall be the most beneficial.

Und wenn du lange genug in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!

adventurers and circumnavigators of that inner world which is called "human being

We new philosophers, however, not only do we begin by presenting the actual gradations in rank and variations in value among us but we also desire the very opposite of an assimilation, an equalizing: we teach estrangement in every sense, we tear open gaps as never were, we want man to become more wicked than he ever was.

For, why is the triumph of Nihilism inevitable now? Because the very values current amongst us to-day will arrive at their logical conclusion in Nihilism,—because Nihilism is the only possible outcome of our greatest values and ideals,—because we must first experience Nihilism before we can realise what the actual worth of these "values" was....

The errors of great men are more valuable than the truths of lesser men.

In the end one has to do everything oneself in order to know a few things oneself: that is, one has a lot to do. But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices—sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.—

Aside from a few philosophers, men have always placed pity rather low in the hierarchy of moral feelings—and rightly so.

You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation?

Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?

Quiero aprender cada vez mejor a ver lo necesario de las cosas como lo bello; así, seré de los que vuelven bellas las cosas. ¡Amor fati: que ese sea en adelante mi amor! No quiero librar guerra a lo feo. No quiero acusar, no quiero ni siquiera acusar a los acusadores. ¡Apartar la mirada, que sea ésta mi única negación! Y, en definitiva, y en grande: ¡quiero ser, un día, uno que sólo dice sí!

When we look out for the Barbarian, we look in the depths. But there is another type of Barbarian, who comes from the heights.

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Ich liebe die großen Verachtenden, weil sie die großen Verehrenden sind und Pfeile der Sehnsucht nach dem andern Ufer.

In all truly productive men instinct is the strong, affirmative force and reason the dissuader and critic.

Thus months and years passed by for the lonely one; but his wisdom grew and caused him pain with its fullness.

But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead!

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.

Omul e doar o funie, întins? între bestie ÅŸi Supraom — o funie peste un abis

The time is coming when we shall have to pay for having been Christians for two thousand years; we have lost the essential thing on which our lives depend; for a long while we will not know what to do with ourselves.

Além todo o discurso é vão! A melhor sabedoria é esquecer e passar: foi isto que aprendeste agora.

Judgements, value judgements concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgements are stupidities.

The properties of a thing are effects on other 'things': if one removes other 'things', then a thing has no properties, i.e., there is no thing without other things, i.e., there is no 'thing-in-itself.