Some Interesting Statements
Nietzsche said to the cow: why are you so happy? And the cow replied, because I do not think about the future or the past; I think about nothing — but by the time it tried to say this, it had already forgotten.
Übermensch is the term coined by Nietzsche
for the brave human who can fully embrace life and create new values themselves.
The Übermensch does not seek the meaning of life in an afterlife
or in a Platonic world of ideas, but in life itself.
The Übermensch is therefore
not a superior human race, as sometimes misunderstood, but the human who does
not create illusions to soften existence.
"The human is a rope, tied between animal and Übermensch."
Sartre says: life has no purpose; the purpose is life itself.
Remarks by Kant:
- You should not teach people philosophy; instead, you should teach them how to philosophize.
- Regarding the Enlightenment (17th/18th century), he calls it: "Enlightenment" is the transition from self-imposed mental immaturity to mental maturity.