List of Walter Kaufmann Quotes

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.

Here An Attempt Is Made To Explain Suffering: The Outcaste Of Traditional Hinduism Is Held To Deserve His Fetched Fate; It Is A Punishment For The Wrongs He Did In A Previous Life.

Paul Substituted Faith In Christ For The Christlike Life.

It Is Widely Assumed, Contrary To Fact, That Theism Necessarily Involves The Two Assumptions Which Cannot Be Squared With The Existence Of So Much Suffering, And That Therefore, Per Impossibile, They Simply Have To Be Squared With The Existence Of All This Suffering, Somehow.

It Was Also Hegel Who Established The View That The Different Philosophic Systems That We Find In History Are To Be Comprehended In Terms Of Development And That They Are Generally One-sided Because They Owe Their Origins To A Reaction Against What Has Gone Before.

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.

No Other German Writer Of Comparable Stature Has Been A More Extreme Critic Of German Nationalism Than Nietzsche.

To Try To Fashion Something From Suffering, To Relish Our Triumphs, And To Endure Defeats Without Resentment: All That Is Compatible With The Faith Of A Heretic.

Life Ceases To Be So Oppressive: We Are Free To Give Our Own Lives Meaning And Purpose, Free To Redeem Our Suffering By Making Something Of It.

The Doctrine Of Original Sin Claims That All Men Sinned In Adam; But Whether They Did Or Whether It Is Merely A Fact That All Men Sin Does Not Basically Affect The Problem Of Suffering.

For Atheism And Polytheism There Is No Special Problem Of Suffering, Nor Need There Be For Every Kind Of Monotheism.

Success Is No Proof Of Virtue. In The Case Of A Book, Quick Acclaim Is Presumptive Evidence Of A Lack Of Substance And Originality.