Books Quote by T.K. Seung

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

— Hannah Arendt

“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with…

— Albert Einstein

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.”

— Lev Shestov

“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

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to…

— Anton Chekhov

It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but the value…

— Mark Fisher

“Descartes' Meditations; doubt rise and results in clear and distinct ideas. all in the mind and all innate. Spinoza bakes the best cake, love…

— Aporva Kala

“It was the mutual study of the Spear and the significance of its legend and their strikingly opposite views about it which finally parted…

— Trevor Ravenscroft Spear of Destiny