Quotes About Existence

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond" – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.

The man looked up distrustfully. If you speak the truth, said he, I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.

The tragic artist is not a pessimist — it is precisely he who affirms all that is questionable and terrible in existence, he is Dionysian.

The great problems are to be encountered in the street.

Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us?

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

The world itself is a filthy monster.

S-ar putea s? existe chiar fanatici puritani ai conÅŸtiinÅ£ei care s? doreasc? a muri culcaÅ£i mai degrab? pe un Nimic cert decât pe un Ceva nesigur. Dar acesta e nihilism, însemnul unui suflet dezn?d?jduit ÅŸi dezgustat de moarte, oricât de curajoase ar p?rea atitudinile unei astfel de virtuÅ£i.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

We deny God; in denying God, we deny accountability: only by doing that do we redeem the world. –

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?

The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, humanity.

To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all.

That the artist places a higher value on appearance than on reality constitutes no objection to this proposition. For 'appearance' here signifies reality once more, only selected, strengthened, corrected.… The tragic artist is not a pessimist – it is precisely he who affirms all that is questionable and terrible in existence, he is Dionysian…

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.

Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.

Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?

We have invented the concept "goal": in reality, goals are absent . . .

The way after all – it does not exist!

Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept "reality", for ourselves?

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.