“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.”

Walter Kaufmann

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About Walter Kaufmann

Philosopher German-American

Walter Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet renowned for his influential work on Friedrich Nietzsche and existentialism. Born in Germany, he fled the Nazi regime and emigrated to the United...

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