Philosopher Quotes

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Judgments, value judgments 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 judgments are stupidities.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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