“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was once asked what made him so negative toward Christians. He replied, “I would believe in their… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster,” as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. “And… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
“At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“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
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.' Yeah, right Nietzsche. And who does not drive you crazy, can't steal your job… — Darcy Maguire Copy Share Image
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“To be sure, the term, will to power, was coined by Nietzsche rather than Adler, and the term, will to pleasure—standing for… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society’s laws “the splendid blond beast” precisely because they so often behave as though… — Christopher Simpson Copy Share Image
Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“– Egyszer egy ember azt mondta – válaszolta Izil –, „ne harcolj szörnyekkel, másként belőled is szörny lesz, és ha beletekintesz a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. Both theses are equally well-founded, hence equally true, as each… — Emil Cioran 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
“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
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
“Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Like everyone else, I have my black list of unfavorite authors and critics, and among intimate friends I sometimes say exactly what… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Such is the world as it appeared to Nietzsche under the monumental aspect of Turin: a discontinuity of intensities that are given… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Petre's commitment to Roman Catholicism combined with her openness to mental and moral subjectivism formed a rare alchemy among early twentieth-century Catholics.… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
“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
“Powerlessness became 'goodness', baseness 'humility', submission to people one hated 'obedience' and, in Nietzsche's phrase, "not-being-able to-take-revenge' turned into 'forgiveness'. Every feeling… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
