Quotes by Philosophers

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. Francis Bacon

Life Way Ways About Fairer Surely Commonly Shortest Much

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. Francis Herbert Hedge

Good Nature Religion Sympathy Part Person

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. Francis Herbert Hedge

Man Past Own Every Ancestors He His Heir Fortune Every Man

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. Francis Hutcheson

Happiness Best Action Greatest Greatest Happiness Which Numbers

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. Friedrich Nietzsche

Man Creative Cause Every Mobile Movement Happens Original Every Man

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Friedrich Nietzsche

Imperfect Never Tense Becomes Existence Really Present

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion World Enough Destroy Even

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

Good Own Possesses Spirit Only Writer Good Writer Also His Friends

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche

Life Value Be True Resort Symptoms Consideration Possess Only Never True Come Concerning Stupidities Judgments Against Themselves Last

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. Friedrich Nietzsche

God Man Take Himself Readily Does Reason Why

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche

History Men Neither See Come Course Nor Iron Necessary Necessity

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom Pride Sense Nothing Our Bit Has-Been Purchased More Dearly Been Than Which Little Little Bit Reason Now

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience Ourselves Must Having Study Come Does Off While Desire

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing. Friedrich Nietzsche

Me Song World New Sing Heavens Rejoicing

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride Our Wound Wounded Vanity Been Precisely Just Hardest

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. Friedrich Nietzsche

Hate Value Long Only Attach Equal Greater Still Lesser

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. Gabriel Marcel

Science Adequate Exact Object Method Up Measures Extent

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. Gabriel Marcel

Man Say Would Contemporary Himself Continuously Transcending Thinkers