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Existentialism Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very…
- He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
- Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
- Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
- Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
- Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent.…
- Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for…
- You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
- No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
- The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and…
- One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
- All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
- I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
- if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
More Existentialism Quotes
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- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus
- Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
- I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology… — Michel Foucault
- John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac
- The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin
- Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. — Delmore Schwartz
- To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor… — Charles Seife
- I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus
- It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations… — Rudy Rucker