Quotes · Skopia

33 quotes

To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation.

Moses Mendelssohn

1783

★ 1.0

Autobiography and memoir · Philosophical literature

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo · 1908

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power · 1888

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 2.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human · 1878

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

Now every tradition grows continually more venerable, the farther off lies its origin, the more this is lost sight of; the veneration paid it accumulates from generation to generation, the tradition at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human · 1878

★ 4.6

Philosophical literature

The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals · 1887

★ 4.6

Philosophical literature

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist · 1895

★ 4.6

Philosophical literature

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 4.8

Philosophical literature

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo · 1908

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human · 1878

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals · 1887

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist · 1895

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 5.6

Philosophical literature

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 5.6

Philosophical literature

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 6.4

Philosophical literature

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 6.4

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