“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“The landscape of Turin, the monumental squares, the promenades along the Po river, were bathed in a kind of 'Claude Lorraine' luminosity… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
“As the spectacular triumphs of technology mounted, something else was happening: old sources of belief came under siege. Nietzsche announced that God… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It was the mutual study of the Spear and the significance of its legend and their strikingly opposite views about it which… — Trevor Ravenscroft Spear of Destiny Copy Share Image
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds and in the end, none of them knows anything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche’s point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses,… — Paul Katsafanas Copy Share Image
I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing… Nietzsche… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Women, whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster . . .” I said.… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This text is a dramatic battlefield. Nietzsche tries to argue for rejecting the Crucifixion in general terms, referring to the stupidity of… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share Image
Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“When Nietzsche said that there are no facts, he meant that we, as human beings, ultimately rely on our interpretations of reality.… — Darius Foroux Copy Share Image
“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche's case is an especially interesting one for whoever wishes to undertake a critical examination of the “neotraditionalist” path. Two main reasons… — Luc Ferry Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche called the ear “the organ of fear,” and believed that the sense of hearing “could have evolved as greatly as it… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“[Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: “Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Even though there is neither much altruism nor equality in the world, there is almost universal endorsement of the values of altruism… — Brian Leiter Copy Share Image
![“What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self…” quote by Georg Brandes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/georg-brandes-10610_baseness_what-nietzsche-calls-slave-morality-is-t_2767791.jpg)
![“[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar…” quote by Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f93/antonin-artaud-3802_adventure_nietzsche-s-definition-of-cruelty-inform_2318694.png)
![“Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily…” quote by John Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27e/john-carroll-16284_action_stirner-and-nietzsche-adopt-a-mode-of-th_1295463.jpg)
![“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so…” quote by Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dd/leo-strauss-12446_adopted_to-avert-the-danger-posed-by-theory-to-l_1610746.jpg)
![“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing… Nietzsche feared that with God's passing even that striving would stop. No one would think it worthwhile to try to overcome himself. People who would live happily with their own…” quote by Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc3/mark-edmundson-35432_nature-of-man_the-presence-of-god-compelled-human-s-to_1129279.jpg)
![“Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As a young man Nietzsche admired Manzoni's masterpiece I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]; at least, he said so, though the results are not apparent.63 Girard…” quote by Giuseppe Fornari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/giuseppe-fornari-75224_christianity_alessandro-manzoni-who-based-his-concept_1166815.jpg)
![“[Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: “Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one’s talent.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's "Sexual…” quote by Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/camille-paglia-652_art_nietzsche-thinks-artists-undersexed-thei_1528497.jpg)
