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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -- Leo Tolstoy
I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche. -- Charlize Theron
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. -- Hanif Kureishi
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. -- David Duchovny
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. -- Federico Fellini
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' -- Matthew Stewart
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. -- Jacques Derrida
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. -- Michael Connelly
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. -- Herbert Read
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist. -- John Banville
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it. -- Stephen Stills
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. -- Joni Mitchell
Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson
Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion. -- Hannah Arendt
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche. -- Joey Barton
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. -- Bob Dylan
If you can spell "Nietzsche" without Google, you deserve a cookie. -- Lauren Leto
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. -- Emile M. Cioran
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. -- Robert Payne
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him. -- David Mitchell
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. -- Henry Noel Brailsford
And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger. -- Viktor E. Frankl
It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad. -- Rajneesh
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. -- Isadora Duncan
I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me. -- Paula Cole
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? -- John Fante
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. -- Rollo May
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I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche -- Richey Edwards
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. -- Hannah Arendt
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. -- Zoltan Istvan
Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better. -- Linda Ellerbee
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. -- Ernest Gaines
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. -- Walter Kaufmann
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. -- John Carroll
I cannot recognize Christianity in his (Nietzsche's) rants against the church, but I do recognize too much of myself. -- John Mark Reynolds
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. -- Elie Wiesel
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm. -- Che Guevara
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. -- Karl Jaspers
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. -- Gilles Deleuze
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'. -- John Carroll
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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. -- Bobby Fischer
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known. -- Benjamin Wiker
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. -- Ben Dreyfuss
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility. -- Karl Jaspers
Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. -- Woody Allen
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. -- Albert Camus
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
Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. -- George Santayana
As Nietzsche said, "?that which doesn't kill you"? '(Alexion) Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you're a Dark-Hunter, just a good day's sleep. (Danger) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally -- Irvin D. Yalom
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. -- Martin Heidegger
I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is. -- Jewel
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place. -- Sam Fogarino
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto. -- Martin Heidegger
They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology. -- Sean Lennon
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue. -- John Carroll
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. -- Georges Bizet
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake. -- Susan Sontag
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts. -- George Santayana
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war. -- H. L. Mencken
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. -- Philip Kitcher
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values. -- Gilles Deleuze
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out in his writings about both thinkers, both modes are present. -- Philip Kitcher
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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. -- Andrea Dworkin
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. -- Allan Bloom
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What â?? suddenly youâ??ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky? -- Douglas Coupland
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella. -- Philip Kitcher
Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat." -- Grant Morrison
I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura. -- Anton Chekhov
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor. -- Stefan Zweig
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill. -- Martin Heidegger
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee. -- Walter Kaufmann
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence -- Georg Brandes
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them. -- Karl Barth
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.) -- Charles Stross
This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful. -- Edward Norton
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!) -- Philip Kitcher
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God." Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ. -- Seraphim Rose
I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche. -- Katie McGrath
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. -- Joni Mitchell
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? -- Milan Kundera
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. -- Dean Wareham
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can. -- Georg Brandes
With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition. -- Karl Jaspers
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check. -- John Carroll
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist. -- Francis Schaeffer
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension. -- John Carroll
Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education. -- John Brandon
But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'. -- Michael Foley
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you. -- Amanda Hocking
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. -- Norman Geisler
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ... -- Antonin Artaud
The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun. -- Scott D. Anthony
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me. -- Georg Brandes
Dari semua yang tertulis, aku hanya mencintai apa yang ditulis seseorang dengan darahnya sendiri. --Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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