Philosophy Quotes

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"Each man should govern his life by his own principles."

"To philosophy belongs the highest jurisdiction in all things."

"As it is with the body, so it is with the mind: pleasure not taken in moderation becomes pain."

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

"Virtue is not a means to something good, it IS the good."

"I teach you the Übermensch: he is this sea; in him can your great contempt go under."

"A wise man once told me: it is nobler to create new values than to accept old ones."

"We are all murderers at heart."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"The great majority of us are not looking for the truth; we're looking for a story that we prefer to any truth."

"I came into the world not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad."

"What men call good society and winning the world easily, I call the way to lose the soul."

"The art of war is governed by five constant factors."

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

"Adults are really very strange creatures."

"The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving towards perfection: no, it is perfect at every moment."

"The self is an illusion we must overcome."

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

"What is your essential function?"

"Grown-ups love figures."

"Wealth is the test of a man's character."

"Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be."

"Fate guides the willing, and drags along the unwilling."

"A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself he is."

"Just as it is madness to wear out the body by luxury, so too it is madness to waste the mind."

"The body is temporary, the mind eternal."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Each man must find his own path; no one can show him the way."