“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
More from Nietzsche on Philosophy
“He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.”
“What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...”
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”
“The bite of conscience is indecent.”
“Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood”
“But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.”
“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”
“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his natu...”