The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? — Walter Kaufmann Problem Copy Share Image
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above… — Walter Kaufmann Astronomy Copy Share Image
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance… — Walter Kaufmann 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
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Atheism Copy Share Image
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. — Walter Kaufmann Belief Copy Share Image
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Monotheism Copy Share Image
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended… — Walter Kaufmann 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
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives,… — Walter Kaufmann Perspective Copy Share Image
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish… — Walter Kaufmann Freedom Copy Share Image
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden… — Walter Kaufmann Atheism Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Academic Copy Share Image
“Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless… — Walter Kaufmann Concern for others Copy Share Image
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and… — Walter Kaufmann Creation Copy Share Image
“Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated… — Walter Kaufmann Literature Copy Share Image
“The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe… — Walter Kaufmann Christianity Copy Share Image
“Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving… — Walter Kaufmann Jargon Copy Share Image
“The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject. What… — Walter Kaufmann Endless opportunities Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their… — Walter Kaufmann Atheism Copy Share Image
“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can… — Walter Kaufmann Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man’s world is manifold, and his attitudes are manifold. What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple.… — Walter Kaufmann Great teachers 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
“Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.” — Walter Kaufmann Excellence Copy Share Image
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of… — Walter Kaufmann 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 Nietzsche Copy Share Image
