Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was once asked what made him so negative toward Christians. He replied, “I would believe in their… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets.… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
“Hotel Waldhaus We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with appearances, so long as we realize that that is what they are (this will always be a… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
“For the Greeks, values existed a priori and marked out the exact limits of every action. Modern philosophy places its values at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Even the few days I spend reminiscing in Mexico City seem like memories or dreams. Everything looks different and backward without [him]… — Daniel Kine Copy Share Image
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I saw that he was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian (Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society’s laws “the splendid blond beast” precisely because they so often behave as though… — Christopher Simpson Copy Share Image
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. Both theses are equally well-founded, hence equally true, as each… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“– Egyszer egy ember azt mondta – válaszolta Izil –, „ne harcolj szörnyekkel, másként belőled is szörny lesz, és ha beletekintesz a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster,” as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. “And… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“To be sure, the term, will to power, was coined by Nietzsche rather than Adler, and the term, will to pleasure—standing for… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.' Yeah, right Nietzsche. And who does not drive you crazy, can't steal your job… — Darcy Maguire Copy Share Image
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Few things in life are certain, and one of them is that you can turn on the television at three in the… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was… — Jens Bjørneboe Copy Share Image