“Closer attention to beliefs, mindsets and outlooks releases us from ideological and often moralizing categories; it reveals some shared aspirations, hopes, bitterness… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands;… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“He sank more and more into apathy; little interested him apart from dolls and other children’s toys. He still spoke occasionally, but… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
“Christianity had, in Nietzsche’s account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“What would the world be like if women stopped being women—shut the tea-and-sympathy shop, closed down the love store, gave up the… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The schizo knows how to leave: he has made departure into something as simple as being born or dying. But at the… — Deleuze Guattari Copy Share Image
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of… — Leo Strauss 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
“There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Woman, even more than man, is a fetich worshipper, and though her idols may change, she is ever on her knees, ever… — Emma Goldman 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 of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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