Abnormal Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

— Hannah Arendt

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

— Rajneesh

“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from…

— H.L. Mencken

“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A…

— Jens Bjørneboe

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar…

— George Santayana

“The German philosopher Nietzsche taught us that “the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.”

— Graham Allison

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

— Anonymous

“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives…

— Margaret MacMillan

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

— Alice Hoffman

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

— Walter Kaufmann

“And just like in his horror movies and books, people did stupid things when faced with overwhelming stress and fear.”

— Hunter Shea

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

— Federico Fellini