Philosophy Quotes

"Language is the first philosophy; it reveals the nature of human thought."

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."

"All that is real is rational; all that is rational is real."

"The task of philosophy is to understand what is; for what is, is reason."

"The absolute is best described as simply being."

"The substance of reality is spirit, and spirit is infinite."

"Reason is the substance of the universe."

"The concept is the power of negativity."

"The concept is the heart of things."

"The infinite journey of the Spirit is toward self-knowledge."

"The real is rational; the rational is real."

"The individual must negate itself to become universal."

"The absolute knows itself through history."

"The infinite is not beyond the finite but within it."

"The philosopher is the midwife of truth."

"The dialectic is the pulse of reality."

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that is to be overcome."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings—always darker, emptier and simpler."

"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome."

"I want to teach men the meaning of their existence, which is the Übermensch."

"The world is not a moral universe."

"It is impossible for me to construct a life-view based on reason alone."

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."

"The sickness unto death is the sickness of the self."

"Philosophy can teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others."

"The absurd is the only solidly transcendent point in human life."

"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain."

"Man is not governed by his reason alone, but by his passions and interests."

"If we could accurately measure pleasure and pain, we could solve all moral problems."

"Evil is simply pleasure to those who cause it and pain to those who suffer it."