philosophy Quotes

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.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.