"The great artist is the man who most……" — Walter Kaufmann
"The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains."
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25 Quotes by Walter Kaufmann
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic…
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Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the…
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Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack…
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Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to…
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Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading…
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Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character…
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose -…
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate;…
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one…
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