“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.” MindPhilosophyUniverseImaginationAnswersKnownGreatnessHighestCapableIntellectualUnionsSakeBeing TrueConceptionContemplatingDefiniteDiminishAssuranceSpeculationDogmatic Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.” YearsPersonsPhilosophyGodAbleOrderFatherSonDevilOppositesOddTwelveContemplatingTrinityInference Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.” MindPhilosophyUniverseGreatnessHighestCapableUnionsContemplating Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy