Clear Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

All philosophy is a form of confession.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has…

— Michiko Kakutani

“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even…

— Aidan Chambers

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

— Charles Peguy

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with…

— Fernando Pessoa

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

— Albert Pike

“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the…

— Roberto Calasso

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

— William James