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  • He could quote glibly from Plato, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Theodore Roosevelt, the Marquis de Sade and Warren G. Harding.†   (source)
  • He quickly grabs what he needs for Spanish, Calculus, Richard Wright, and now History of Education, as he runs-past Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Kant, Faulkner, Shakespeare, the whole Western Canon-for the cashier, feeling like he'll escape intact.†   (source)
  • That is why Nietzsche called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens(das schwerste Gewicht).†   (source)
  • -FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THE CAY SCIENCE M I C HAEL When inmates tried to kill themselves, they'd use the vent.†   (source)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche   (source)
  • Nietzsche says, "Supposing truth is a woman--what then?"†   (source)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, and critic It's just very hard to sit and talk to someone whose bare nipples are sort of…pointingat you.†   (source)
  • Our conversation ebbs and flows in majestic waves like the sea—Hart Crane, sex, Thomas Hardy, sex, Flaubert, sex, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, sex, Huckleberry Finn, sex.†   (source)
  • EDMUND Then Nietzsche must be right.†   (source)
  • The expression 'God is dead' came from Nietzsche.†   (source)
  • Another image also comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin.†   (source)
  • That took place in 1889, when Nietzsche, too, had removed himself from the world of people.†   (source)
  • Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen!†   (source)
  • A man who was influenced by both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche was the German existential philosopher Martin Heidegger.†   (source)
  • According to Nietzsche, both Christianity and traditional philosophy had turned away from the real world and pointed toward 'heaven' or 'the world of ideas.'†   (source)
  • It was a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration, something I only knew because of an art history course I'd taken when I fancied myself in love with the TA who ran the class sessions—a tall, anemic guy with ski-slope cheekbones who wore black, smoked clove cigarettes, and wrote Nietzsche quotes on the back of his hand.†   (source)
  • But for that very reason I feel his gesture has broad implications: Nietzsche was trying to apologize to the horse for Descartes.†   (source)
  • And that is the Nietzsche I love, just as I love Tereza with the mortally ill dog resting his head in her lap.†   (source)
  • Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears.†   (source)
  • 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!†   (source)
  • Against the wall between the doorways is a small bookcase, with a picture of Shakespeare above it, containing novels by Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, philosophical and sociological works by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, Max Stirner, plays by Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, poetry by Swinburne, Rossetti, Wilde, Ernest Dow-son, Kipling, etc. In the right wall, rear, is a screen door leading out on the porch which extends halfway around the house.†   (source)
  • EDMUND Nietzsche.†   (source)
  • "Live," Nietzsche says, "as though the day were here."†   (source)
  • A nature such as Nietzsche's had to suffer our present ills more than a generation in advance.†   (source)
  • In the fateful,epoch-announcing words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "Dead are all the gods.†   (source)
  • Their taste in books was catholic, at any rate; Plato in Greek touched Omar in English; Nietzsche partnered Newton; Thomas More was there, and also Hannah More, Thomas Moore, George Moore, and even Old Moore.†   (source)
  • Henry, Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Gogol, T. S. Eliot, Gide, Baudelaire, Edgar Lee Masters, Stendhal, Turgenev, Huneker, Nietzsche, and scores of others?†   (source)
  • The Cosmic Dancer, declares Nietzsche, does not rest heavily in a single spot, but gaily, lightly, turns and leaps from one position to another.†   (source)
  • Eighty years before Nietzsche.†   (source)
  • In one direction, a few who read whopping books in German or French and knew their physics and botany manuals backwards, readers of Nietzsche and Spengler.†   (source)
  • In truth, I had little cause to wish to continue in that way which led on into ever thinner air, like the smoke in Nietzsche's harvest song.†   (source)
  • I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.†   (source)
  • Compare Nietzsche: "In our sleep and in our dreams we pass through the whole thought of earlier humanity.†   (source)
  • To a man not led astray from himself by sentiments stemmingfrom the surfaces of what he sees, but courageously responding to the dynamics of his own nature—to a man who is, as Nietzsche phrases it, "a wheel rolling of itself"—difficulties melt and the unpredictable highway opens as he goes.†   (source)
  • They were at home in it and knew all its ways— They loved a champagne or a special dish at a restaurant as one of us might a composer or poet, and they lavished the same enthusiasm and rapture and emotion on the latest craze in dances or the sentimental cloying song of a jazz singer as one of us on Nietzsche or Hamsun.†   (source)
  • "When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you."†   (source)
  • Um--um--Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and so we go on.†   (source)
  • Exactly what is complained of in Nietzsche and Ibsen, is it not?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche, the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally, perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific breeding of men and women, and the establishing…†   (source)
  • He would know more than a German Jew who loves Father Nietzsche and Father Schopenhauer (but damn him, he was teleological-minded!†   (source)
  • It may seem a long step from Bunyan to Nietzsche; but the difference between their conclusions is purely formal.†   (source)
  • "I never got on to Nietzsche," he said.†   (source)
  • He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter mouths and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.†   (source)
  • But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away.†   (source)
  • Nietzsche …. a philosopher …. a very great, a most celebrated man …. a man of enormous brain, says in his books that you can forge bank-notes.†   (source)
  • And this spectre stands right beside the one logical necessity of Tolstoi's, and the other logical necessity of Nietzsche's—"†   (source)
  • I should like to see this Nietzsche.†   (source)
  • Yet all thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: Benson and Chesterton had popularized Huysmans and Newman; Shaw had sugar-coated Nietzsche and Ibsen and Schopenhauer.†   (source)
  • So when they met here, Nietzsche denounced him as a renegade; and Wagner wrote a pamphlet to prove that Nietzsche was a Jew; and it ended in Nietzsche's going to heaven in a huff.†   (source)
  • Instead of pretending to read Ovid he does actually read Schopenhaur and Nietzsche, studies Westermarck, and is concerned for the future of the race instead of for the freedom of his own instincts.†   (source)
  • Bunyan, Blake, Hogarth and Turner (these four apart and above all the English Classics), Goethe, Shelley, Schopenhaur, Wagner, Ibsen, Morris, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche are among the writers whose peculiar sense of the world I recognize as more or less akin to my own.†   (source)
  • Nietzsche?†   (source)
  • …supplanter of religion, his insistence on courage as the virtue of virtues, his estimate of the career of the conventionally respectable and sensible Worldly Wiseman as no better at bottom than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker's theology, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of post-Darwinian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy.†   (source)
  • When he finds people chattering harmlessly about Anatole France and Nietzsche, he devastates them with Matthew Arnold, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and even Macaulay; and as he is devoutly religious at bottom, he first leads the unwary, by humorous irreverences, to wave popular theology out of account in discussing moral questions with him, and then scatters them in confusion by demanding whether the carrying out of his ideals of conduct was not the manifest object of God…†   (source)
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