Quotes by Walter Kaufmann - Page 1

Writing is thinking in slow motion.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Slow Motion
Thinking
Writing
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Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.
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Christ
Historical
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Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Men
World
Writing
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Knows
Problem
Suffering
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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Differences
Monotheism
Polytheism
Religions
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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 / Philosopher
Believe
Helping
May
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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Critics
Extremes
Has Beens
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For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Atheism
Special
Suffering
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Believe
Book
Character
Function
Believe I Believe Character
Contents
Character Believe I Believe
Review
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Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Being Single
Being Yourself
Judgment
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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 / Philosopher
Book
Originality
Substance
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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 / Philosopher
Men
Stand Alone
Stars
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Religion
Belief
Evidence
Intense
Mean
Reasonable
Sufficient
Assent
Based
Confident
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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.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Giving
Meaning Of Life
Purpose
Suffering
Ceases
Meaning
Oppressive
Redeem
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Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Mean
Perspective
Philosophy
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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.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Compatible
Endure
Fashion
Heretic
Relish
Resentment
Suffering
Trying
Defeats
Triumphs
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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.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Deserve
Fate
Hinduism
Previous Life
Punishment
Suffering
Traditional
Attempt
Explain
Held
Previous
Wrongs
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It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Doe
Purpose
Suffering
Above
Life World Must
Governed
Labeled
Neatly
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Art
Men
Pain
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Advantage
Artist
Great Artist
Sensibility
Understanding
Turning
Letting
Obviously
Pains
Succeeds
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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.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Men
Adam
Claims
Doctrine
Doe
Original Sin
Sin
Suffering
Affect
Merely
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Believe
Blood
Brother
Existence
Heart
Prove
Life Nature God
Brothers
Closed
Hearts
Led
Sheltered
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Jobs
Indictment
Injustice
Looks
Unpredictable
World
Weird
Forthright
Generally
Scientists
Surely
Theologians
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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 / Philosopher
Men
Equal
Equal Rights
Granted
Hegel
Influence
Rights
Account
Belong
Civic
Ethnic
Insisted
Jews
Origins
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Cases
Human Beings
Picture
Account
Beings
Poses
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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.
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Men
Average
Plato
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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 acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty
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Doe
Want
World
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Jobs
Atheism
Believe
Bible
Profound
Spite
Theism
Worthy
Believes
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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.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Different
Gone
Hegel
One Sided
Philosophic
Views
Established
Generally
Owe
Origins
Reaction
Systems
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Add
Indifferent
Needs
Preventing
Suffering
Assume
At Least One
Governed
Intent
Rejoices
Several
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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.
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Contrary
Existence
Facts
Suffering
Theism
Two
Assumed
Per
Involves
Necessarily
Somehow
Therefore
Widely
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The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Evil
Perfect
Pride
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The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.
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Heart
Philosophy
School
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To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.
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Atheist
Profound
Surprise
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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 worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
People
Reading
Suffering
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