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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter Kaufmann

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter Kaufmann

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“Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly.”

Walter Kaufmann

Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful http://taimur.sarangi.info/text/kaufmann_time.htm <br class="br">Context: Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly. In one way it is even more pernicious.<br>The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future. It keeps us from understanding our roots and the greatest works of our culture and other cultures. It also makes us dread what lies ahead of us and leads many to shirk reality.

“The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future.”

Walter Kaufmann

“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 book Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Context: 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.

“The great artist liberates the emotions and recreates the sheer wonder of childhood without surrendering the development of the intellect.”

Walter Kaufmann

Source: From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959), p. 258

“What makes The Present Age and The Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle important is not so much that the former essay anticipates Heidegger and the latter, Barth: it would be more accurate to say that Heidegger’s originality is widely overestimated, and that many things he says at great length in his highly obscure German were said earlier by various writers who had made the same points much more elegantly, and that some of these writers, including Kierkegaard, were known to Heidegger. Why should Kierkegaard’s significance depend on someone else’s, quite especially when many points that others copied from him may be wrong?”

Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann, Preface to The Present Age, by Soren Kierkegaard, Dru translation 1962 p. 15-16
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“The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught.”

Walter Kaufmann

Source: The Faith of a Heretic (1961), p. 267

“I agree with Paul that love is more important than faith and hope; but so are honesty, integrity, and moral courage. The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.”

Walter Kaufmann

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From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959)