No other German writer of comparable stature has been a…

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race began to…

— Hugh Seton-Watson

Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get rid of…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“when Nietzsche’s fame had begun to spread rapidly, she climbed on the bandwagon. She acquired the sole rights to all his writings, including even…

— Walter Kaufmann

“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go…

— Walter Kaufmann

“The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can be defended…

— Walter Kaufmann

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the…

— Walter Kaufmann

“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

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

Nietzsche is dead.

— GOD

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a “teacher of…

— Anonymous

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

— Karl Jaspers

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen