Philosophy Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“It happens more frequently, as has been”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.”

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.”

“All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”

“Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.”