Philosophy Quotes

"Existence is not essence; essence is an abstraction of existence."

"Sin is despair."

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

"When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

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

"A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"As little as a human being consists of nothing but sexuality, just so little is his cultural creation concerned with nothing but sexuality."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."

"The function of true philosophy is to clarify, not to obscure."

"A categorical imperative would be a proposition which represented an action as necessary."

"The starry heavens above and the moral law within are the two greatest wonders."

"The kingdom of ends exists not merely as an ideal but as something to be realized."

"True practical philosophy must build on principles, not emotions."

"The moral law is within; the starry heavens without."

"We exist as rational beings capable of moral action."

"The unconditioned is never found in the series of the conditioned."

"The purpose of reason is to ensure the dominance of the moral law."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

"Consciousness is determined by social being, not the reverse."

"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness."

"The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life."

"Economic relations form the basis of all other relations in society."

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

"Identity is the unity of identity and non-identity."

"Philosophy is the history of philosophy."

"The individual is the contradiction of the universal and the particular."