Karl Jaspers Quotes

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

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

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

The Gay Science, section 108

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Friedrich Nietzsche--the prophet of restless young men everywhere

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

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.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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

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

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.