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.
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...
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 other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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...
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
We others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment
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...
Time is the moving image of eternity.12
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...
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.
What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.
The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.
Spirit is not opposed to life altogether, but directed only against one level of it. Its mission is not to destroy but to fulfill, to sublimate or—to use the expressions of the Meditations—to transfig...
Man’s world is manifold, and his attitudes are manifold. What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them. They lik...
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.
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...
Few words in world literature equal the impact of this saying. All man’s alibis are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his condition; no original sin; no heredity and no environment; no race, n...