Leo Tolstoy Quotes

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Friedrich Nietzsche--the prophet of restless young men everywhere

The Gay Science, section 108

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

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.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

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.

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.

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but the value of Truth - as the enemy. There will be even fewer surprises that I would reject the Dionysian Nietzsche, the celebrant of transgressive desire.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!