Best German Philosopher Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.”

People Persons Said Enough Religious Class Middle Mines Philosopher Educated Luxury Middle Class Skepticism Secular Rapture Syphilis German Philosopher

Book:Timequake

Source: Timequake

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

Love Inspirational Feelings Shadow Feeling Lost German Philosopher Natural Feelings Old Feelings

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

Thinking World Made Christian Religion Atheism Ugly Resolution Antichrist Christian Atheist German Philosopher

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

Men World Inspirational Science Vision Awareness Human Nature Fields Perspective Limits Perception Every Man Limitation Perception Of The World German Philosopher

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.”

Men Lasts Fame Philosophical German Philosopher

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.”

Kind May Body Brain Organisms Parasites German Philosopher

Book:The Wisdom of Life

Source: The Wisdom of Life

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

Hard Reason Enough Remember Opinion Sweet Hard Times Hardship Life Is Hard German Philosopher

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”

Care Fighting Philosopher Take Care Monsters German Philosopher

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

Life Long Philosophy Life Is Speak Pessimism Life Is Short Long Life Speak The Truth German Philosopher

Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.”

Giving Wells Mean Said Two Order Names Pleasure Known Laughter Philosopher Two Things Well Known German Philosopher

Author:John Cage

“THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.”

Mean Two Laughter Two Things German Philosopher

Author:Immanuel Kant

“There is always some madness in love.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .”

Mind Matter Body Possibility Evolution Ultimate Philosopher Manifestation Units Molecules Containing Indivisible German Philosopher

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."”

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.”

Past Notion Philosopher Curious Fixed German Philosopher

Author:Terry Eagleton