Walter Kaufmann

“What distinguishes man from the other animals is not that he is rational, but that he is irrational.”

“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out.”

“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”

“Philosophy means liberation from the two dimensions of routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.”

“One of the greatest evils of our time is the temptation to uniformity.”

“The great man is a public misfortune.”

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

“The faith of a heretic is not a faith in nothing. It is a faith in the capacity of man to create his own values.”

“Nietzsche's central passion was the passion for honesty.”

“Prophets and poets were not philosophers. But what they had to say was philosophy.”

“The first step towards wisdom is to admit that one is a fool.”