philosophy Quotes

Plato was a bore.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.