I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“To be fair to Nietzsche, he probably meant the word 'stronger' to include anything that makes you more capable. I’d ask him… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise.… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche could have arisen only from the soil of the German Reformation. Here, the contradiction between the natural and grace is starkly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that… — Herbert Read 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche’s work speak… — Karmen MacKendrick Copy Share Image
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“For the first time, he truly understood what Nietzsche had meant when he had yammered about looking into abysses. Not only had… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich… — Jez Humble Copy Share Image
Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with appearances, so long as we realize that that is what they are (this will always be a… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets.… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
“Hotel Waldhaus We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian (Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“It took just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur,” Nietzsche said. He is also the one who… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom is not just the matter of saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a specific decision: it is the power to mold… — Michael E. Gerber 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
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