“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” — Dan Brown 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
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me. — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
“Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“Our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius,” Nietzsche said.11 “For if we think of genius as something magical, we… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche mourns the loss of “man’s belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence.” For me, it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Frank Schirrmacher's passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich Kittler, was the only one who understood the… — Hubert Burda 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 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
“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
“This ability of the body is a source of never-ending wonder to me. It fights against lies with a tenacity and a… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Oh, they said God was dead, all those beatniks and snooty-ass Frenchmen. Not me. I knew better. I said to them, "Wait,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“In the second Unzeitgemäße Betrachtung Nietzsche speaks about “individuals who form a kind of bridge over the wild stream of becoming” and… — Heinrich Meier Copy Share Image
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Vitality, understood both somatically and mentally, is itself the medium that contains a gradient between more and less. It therefore contains the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Nietzsche: 'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.” — Oran Kangas Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better. — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,” Nietzsche wrote (before he went mad)” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. —Nietzsche” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“from Nietzsche: “Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.” (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Hope is the worst of evils,’ Nietzsche famously said, ‘for it prolongs the torment of man.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson)” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Do not envy those who walk the easy path, for their steps leave no mark upon the world.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.” — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image