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Feb 5, 2024 · Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men — and to them alone — to let him flee or to destroy him.
Being and Nothingness Quotes Showing 1-30 of 60. “It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”. ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness. tags: philosophy.
- Jean Paul Sartre
- 1943
Oct 16, 2024 · Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his in...
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1. “The insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to live on, by means of an illusion spread over things.” 2. “Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.” 4. “[The art of ] tragedy transforms those repulsive thoughts about the terrible or a...
5. “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.” 6. “We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in...
10. “Every tradition grows ever more venerable — the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.” 11. “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work tha...
18. “Wherever there is madness there is also a grain of genius and wisdom… All superior men who were irresistibly drawn to throw off the yoke of any kind of morality and to frame new laws had, if they were not actually mad,no alternative but to make themselves or pretend to be mad.” 20. “Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in th...
24. “I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati[love of fate]: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only neg...
35. “Man is something to be surpassed.” 37. “God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.” 38. “How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world.” 40. “What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just...
48. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” 49. “A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” 51. “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets succes...
69. “[L]et us guard ourselves better from now on... against the dangerous old conceptual fabrication that posited a ‘pure, will-less, painless, timeless subject of knowledge’; let us guard ourselves against the tentacles of such contradictory concepts as ‘pure reason,’ ‘absolute spirituality,’ ‘knowledge in itself.’” 70. “Particularly as knowers, l...
78. “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” 80. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.” 81. “When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.” 82. “Idleness is the beginning of all psy...
87. “Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.” 89. “Great intellects are skeptical.” 90. “Sin, this supreme form of human self-desecration, was invented to block science, to block culture, to block every elevation and ennoblement of humanity; the priests rule through the invention of sin.”
Feb 17, 2024 · Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, once said, 'Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.' This powerful quote encapsulates the Stoic belief in accepting and embracing the challenges and adversities that life brings our way.
The man of inner wealth wants nothing from outside but the negative gift of undisturbed leisure, to develop and mature his intellectual faculties, that is, to enjoy his wealth; in short, he wants permission to be himself, his whole life long, every day and every hour.
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Jun 18, 2017 · No matter how young, rich, or happy you are, Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy will have a lasting impact on your mind. Here are the 21 greatest Friedrich Nietzsche quotes to change your life for the better: 1. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. If you think life is hard, keep going.
