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What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted...

Walter Kaufmann

What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted...

Tags: friedrich nietzsche, homer, immanuel kant, kant, mathematician, nietzsche, pascal, pascal s wager, philosophy, speculation

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is the dizziness of freedom, an...

Walter Kaufmann

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is the dizziness of freedom, an...

Tags: kierkegaard

About Author
Walter Kaufmann may refer to:

Walter Kaufmann (physicist) (1871–1947), German physicist
Walter Kaufmann (composer) (1907–1984), composer, conductor, musicologist, and educator
Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) (1921–1980), German-American philosopher, translator, and poet
Walter Kaufmann (author) (1924–2021), German writer

Nietzsche says: Nicht nur fort sollst du dich pflanzen sondern hinauf—you should propagate yourself not only onward but upward: procreation need not be a senseless continuation of an essentially meani...

Walter Kaufmann

Nietzsche says: Nicht nur fort sollst du dich pflanzen sondern hinauf—you should propagate yourself not only onward but upward: procreation need not be a senseless continuation of an essentially meani...

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim...

Walter Kaufmann

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim...

Tags: golden rule, jesus, morality, morals

The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject.

Walter Kaufmann

The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject.

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

Walter Kaufmann

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive...

Walter Kaufmann

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive...

Tags: religion, theology

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.Ne...

Walter Kaufmann

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.Ne...

When Nietzsche’s fame had begun to spread rapidly, she climbed on the bandwagon. She acquired the sole rights to all his writings, including even the letters that he had sent to others. She sued those...

Walter Kaufmann

When Nietzsche’s fame had begun to spread rapidly, she climbed on the bandwagon. She acquired the sole rights to all his writings, including even the letters that he had sent to others. She sued those...

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Walter Kaufmann

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

He would be permitted to say to the moment Abide, you are so fair! And to share Goethe’s faith - for it was no mere confidence in fame but a cosmic faith: The traces of my earthly days/No aeons can im...

Walter Kaufmann

He would be permitted to say to the moment Abide, you are so fair! And to share Goethe’s faith - for it was no mere confidence in fame but a cosmic faith: The traces of my earthly days/No aeons can im...

The Germans think that strength must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty; then they submit with fervor and admiration: they are suddenly rid of their pitiful weakness and their sensitivity for every...

Walter Kaufmann

The Germans think that strength must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty; then they submit with fervor and admiration: they are suddenly rid of their pitiful weakness and their sensitivity for every...

For Nietzsche, the overman does not have instrumental value for the maintenance of society: he is valuable in himself because he embodies the state of being that has the only ultimate value there is;...

Walter Kaufmann

For Nietzsche, the overman does not have instrumental value for the maintenance of society: he is valuable in himself because he embodies the state of being that has the only ultimate value there is;...

Gözönünde tutulacak ilk nokta, varoluşçuluğun herhangi bir özel politik programı gerektirmediği, üç önemli varolşçunun Hitler yıllarında birbirinden apayrı yollar tutmalarının hiç de şaşırtıcı olmadğı...

Walter Kaufmann

Gözönünde tutulacak ilk nokta, varoluşçuluğun herhangi bir özel politik programı gerektirmediği, üç önemli varolşçunun Hitler yıllarında birbirinden apayrı yollar tutmalarının hiç de şaşırtıcı olmadğı...

Time is the moving image of eternity.12

Walter Kaufmann

Time is the moving image of eternity.12

The problem of evil is unanswerable if one believes that there is only one god and that he is omnipotent as well as infinitely good, merciful, and just. But as soon as one denies one or more of these...

Walter Kaufmann

The problem of evil is unanswerable if one believes that there is only one god and that he is omnipotent as well as infinitely good, merciful, and just. But as soon as one denies one or more of these...

Power through the lie—in the knowledge that one does not possess it physically, militarily—the lie as a supplement to power, a new concept of truth.

Walter Kaufmann

Power through the lie—in the knowledge that one does not possess it physically, militarily—the lie as a supplement to power, a new concept of truth.

Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel...

Walter Kaufmann

Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel...

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

Walter Kaufmann

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

Tags: nazism, nietzsche

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represen...

Walter Kaufmann

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represen...

Tags: respect