Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.


trans. Hollingdale, Schopenhauer as educator, § 3.3, p. 139 - Untimely Meditations (1876)

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary...

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary...

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary...

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary...