Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer Philosophical “A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.” Two Religion Climbing ♥ 6
Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer Philosophical “Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.” Tongue Madness Lightning ♥ 6
Philosophical “Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.” Philosophy Interpretation ♥ 6
Philosophical “We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!” Space Body Atoms ♥ 6
Philosophical “Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.” Believe Attitude Doubt ♥ 6
Philosophical “I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.” Fancy Despise ♥ 6
Philosophical “An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.” Important Morality Ethics ♥ 6
Philosophical “Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.” Law Goal Nature ♥ 6
Philosophical “More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.” Men Philosophy Greatness ♥ 6
Philosophical “To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.” Ends Steps Morality ♥ 6