Asceticism Quote by Peter Sloterdijk

“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

“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious gaze, and…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum as in…

— RICHARD HOWARD

Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts…

— Georg Brandes

“I stumbled upon Friedrich Nietzsche when I was 17, following the usual trail of existential candies—Camus, Sartre, Beckett—that unsuspecting teenagers find in the woods.…

— Gary Kamiya

“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up by the…

— Henry Miller

“Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of such ways…

— Brian Leiter

“Nietzsche’s observation, “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set…

— Martin Heidegger

“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Nietzsche, “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”

— Viktor E. Frankl