Nietzsche Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely to achieve…

— Bertrand Russell

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time. This is…

— Seneca

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

“Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet mysterious belief…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a normal conformation,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,…

— Henry Fielding

“There is, it must be confessed, a curious fascination in hearing deep things talked about, even tho neither we nor the disputants understand them.…

— William James