738 quotes found
Philosopher · German · 1844–1900
German philosopher (1844–1900)
“Morality negates life.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“Convictions are prisons.”
“Every word is a prejudice.”
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
“Let your peace be a victory!”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.”
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these ...”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or ...”
“Amor Fati Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.”
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
“I love the forest.”
“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you ...”
“Love, too, has to be learned.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”
“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”
“Art is the proper task of life. ”