Critics Quote by Walter Kaufmann

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has…

— Franz Grillparzer

I have more critics than Hitler.

— Beau Ryan

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

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

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

— Anonymous

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with…

— Abul A'la Maududi

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

— Hannah Arendt

“Comparisons have been made with Stirner, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to name only a few.3 He won tributes from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, who acknowledged…

— Aileen M. Kelly

“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.”

— A.C. Grayling

“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the Arndt or…

— Götz Aly

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

— Karl Donitz