Quotes About Existence

Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody now could endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

But there is no such substratum; there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.

Morality negates life.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

Pain does not count as an objection to life

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

The true world -- we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man.