“God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist," remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Nietzsche got pretty hung up on the notion of human will; really all he needed were some running shoes, Lycra and… — Phil Hewitt Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness became 'goodness', baseness 'humility', submission to people one hated 'obedience' and, in Nietzsche's phrase, "not-being-able to-take-revenge' turned into 'forgiveness'. Every feeling… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Petre's commitment to Roman Catholicism combined with her openness to mental and moral subjectivism formed a rare alchemy among early twentieth-century Catholics.… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
“Such is the world as it appeared to Nietzsche under the monumental aspect of Turin: a discontinuity of intensities that are given… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche wants us to become aware of the fact that we are A5 Active Knowers, that we are always already organizing experience,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“El ocaso de los Dioses, Nietzsche formula tres tareas por las que se requieren educadores: hay que aprender a mirar, a pensar… — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Here was Nietzsche's will to power at work, the pure physical instinct brought on by the desire to survive, to win, to… — Peter Gregoire Copy Share Image
It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Without self-discovery,” Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, “a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Healthy men do house and yard work in order to connect with their primal instincts. This is in contrast to men whom… — VD Copy Share Image
“The Newtonian God—the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew—died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have… — Lovecraft H.P Copy Share Image
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“when Nietzsche’s fame had begun to spread rapidly, she climbed on the bandwagon. She acquired the sole rights to all his writings,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom is not just the matter of saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a specific decision: it is the power to mold… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“It took just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur,” Nietzsche said. He is also the one who… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image