Philosophy quotes — page 4

Man is something that shall be overcome.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more…

Despair is the sickness unto death — the self's refusal to be itself.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as nonsensical…He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Existence precedes essence.

Man is condemned to be free.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

I rebel — therefore we exist.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how'.

Men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world.

Thinking is the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention.