“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann 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
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that.… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
“The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation.… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share
