Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 29, 1880 Death: May 8, 1936
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a poss….
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals..
To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed thems….
Every action alters the soul of the doer..
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point ….
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of exp….
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness.
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - ….
Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or a….
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of o….
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears..
A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby beco….
The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a charac….
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations..
When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as pa….
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country..
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible..
History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear..
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not..
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace..
If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you..