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

“Plato was a bore.”

“...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the”

“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.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.”

“A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.”

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

“The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!”

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

“Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this”