Philosophy Quotes

"We are all monsters in some sense"

"Extraordinary people have the right to transgress"

"I sought to create a new morality and became a slave to the old"

"Consciousness is both blessing and curse"

"Arms and learning may dispute for mastery, but I say arms have it."

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"The more I study the works of men, the more convinced I am of the necessity of returning to the fundamental principles upon which Christianity is based."

"It is often said that man is ruled by his passions, but it would be truer to say that he is ruled by his interests."

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then the possibility of life is destroyed."

"We are deceived at every turn by the принцип of contradictions inherent in all things."

"Our virtue is only the lesser of two vices."

"The question of how to live is the first question of philosophy."

"Great things accomplish themselves without our participation"

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"A man may commit a murder and yet not be a murderer."

"I murdered not a woman, but a principle."

"The extraordinary cannot exist without the ordinary to measure it against."

"We are moved by forces we do not understand."

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."

"I think if the devil doesn't exist and man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"I am a realist and cannot believe in the absurd."

"Misanthropy is not born with man."

"In madness there is sometimes a method more true than reason itself."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"The most ordinary and essential thing is that a man should love himself."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

"I would rather question all things than believe in nothing."

"The more we live, the more we realize that man's greatest enemy is himself."