Mark Fisher Quotes

The Gay Science, section 108

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is … that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.