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- So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every…
- Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
- Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
- The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he…
- All philosophy is a form of confession.
- Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind…
- Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
- A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
- But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not…
- How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would…
- Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at…
- Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former -…
- Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide…
- Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ...…
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
- I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
- There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
- In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- Plato was a bore.
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
- The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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