Nietzschean Thought Quotes

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.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

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.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.