“There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
“Crowley’s self submitting not to a god but to his Self, the Left-Hand Path was remanifested in the West. The roots of… — Don Webb Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“We live to produce information, or improve on it. Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri—either children or books, both… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“This is good too, very good,” he said, “listen to this: ‘A man should be proud of suffering. All suffering is a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“I could quote enough Nietzsche to bore someone into a coma, solve mathematical problems so beautiful they'd make Pythagoras cry; I could… — T.J. Forrester Copy Share Image
It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“As the spectacular triumphs of technology mounted, something else was happening: old sources of belief came under siege. Nietzsche announced that God… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The landscape of Turin, the monumental squares, the promenades along the Po river, were bathed in a kind of 'Claude Lorraine' luminosity… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Since I was in flight from religion, I assumed that my classmates had to be in flight from religion too, albeit in… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“In a world where the great questions have been solved and geopolitics has been subordinated to economics, humanity will look a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bolshevik intellectuals did not confine their reading to Marxist works. They knew Russian and European literature and philosophy and kept up with… — Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“One of Nietzsche’s most frequently repeated assertions is that we are at least partially responsible for the organization of the world, a… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Another image comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“But the death of spirit goes by another name. It is usually called the birth of reason. The dreams of reason are,… — Ed Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing… Nietzsche… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche’s point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses,… — Paul Katsafanas Copy Share Image
“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image