Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.Ne...
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.
Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser...
When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.
No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives, and a philosopher should not imprison his thought in one system.
My lot is that I must be the first decent human being,
Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel...
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represen...
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
We others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment
What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.
Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is n...
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
Use all the stars we have in stock;Of water, fire,walls of rock,And beasts and birds there is no lack.In our narrow house of boards, bestrideThe whole creation, far and wide;Move thoughtfully, but fas...
For Nietzsche, the overman does not have instrumental value for the maintenance of society: he is valuable in himself because he embodies the state of being that has the only ultimate value there is;...
A system must necessarily be based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. Man is something that should be overcome—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.