Philosophy Quotes

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."

"Evil is not something superhuman, it is something subhuman."

"A man is not only judged by his actions but by his thoughts."

"Justice and morality are not always the same."

"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life"

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts"

"I desire to live deliberately"

"The poor inherit the earth"

"Most men appear never to have considered what a house is"

"All things are moral, and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature"

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

"What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of great contempt."

"He who despiseth himself, nevertheless esteemeth himself thereby, as a despiser."

"Everything goeth, everything returneth; eternally rolleth the wheel of existence."

"The greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."

"I teach you the Übermensch: he is this lightning, he is this madness!"

"Nothing in the world is isolated from everything else"

"Such a man can lose nothing, for he holds all things lightly."

"Retirement does not remove a man from the world."

"Such is the condition of mankind that nowhere can we live in perfect peace."

"The soul is never voluntarily deprived of virtue."

"Nature has given you the gift of choice, but not freedom from choice."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Arithmetic! You have such a way of reducing everything to numbers."

"The meaning of life is whatever you make of it."

"The world is beautiful, but it has a disease called man"

"Everything returns except suffering"

"I have learned that there is something in the depths of my being, in the depths which the Brahmans call Atman"