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“Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Believe #May #Helping
“When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Men #Rights #Influence
“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquireâ€¦. â€¦.The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#World #Want #Taste
“Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Book #Substance #Originality
“Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Stars #Men #Stand Alone
“Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Reading #People #Suffering
“No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.”
-- Walter Kaufmann

#Critics #Extremes #Nationalism

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