Philosophy Quotes

"In this age of transition, everything nails down our attention on the effect of opinions upon society."

"It is the fashion of the majority to live without any fixed principle."

"It is incumbent on those who introduced a new system to prove its superiority."

"The task of philosophy is to transform theology into anthropology."

"The human condition is defined by our capacity for compassion."

"Compassion is the foundation of all ethics and morality."

"God is dead."

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

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a bad night."

"He who despises himself still respects himself as one who despises."

"Egoism is the law of nature."

"The degree and the kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the topmost summit of his spirit."

"The greater the height the greater fall."

"The ascetic ideals' dominion is so complete that the anti-ascetic ideals are unable to even rise to the level of ideas."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working."

"Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in life and thought. It means the empirical attitude, but it must be expressed more broadly."

"There may be invisible logical relations which cannot enter into any possible picture."

"The most inveterate human trait is the attachment to one's own favorite opinions and beliefs."

"Even the most abstract imaginative flights of the mind are but footnotes and commentary on fundamental truths."

"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."

"It is impossible for me to conceive of a God who rewards and punishes."

"That individual is in despair who is not conscious of being an infinite self."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the passionate thinking."

"The ethical life is when one becomes conscious of oneself as a self."

"Ours is a time of dissolution, disintegration, decay and death."

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself."

"This is how one becomes a human being: through choice."

"The proud man always finds himself in a precarious position."

"The leap is not an explanation, but a category."