“ Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a rel… Frans de Waal
“ Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should no… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, t… Mark Fisher
“ Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and mak… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice. I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precip… Daven Anderson
“ Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy that fired the late-nineteenth-cen… Arno J. Mayer
“ For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to say, a gift of God, such as music, should not have the mocking charge of paradox leveled at it for… Thomas Mann
“ Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value col… Robert C. Solomon
“ But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies Friedrich Nietzsche
“ All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Even though there is neither much altruism nor equality in the world, there is almost universal endorsement of the values of altruism and equality - even, notoriously (and as Nietzsche seemed well awa… Brian Leiter
“ The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. Jens Bjørneboe
“ It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering... Friedrich Nietzsche
