Philosopher Quotes

743 quotes in this collection

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole."

-- Plato

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

-- Plato

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy."

-- Plato
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