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How I understand the philosopher -- as a terrible explosive,
endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is
worlds removed from any concept that would include even a
Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other
professors of philosophy...
from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, s 3.2.3,
Walter Kaufmann
transl.
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.-- Those who boast so
mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should
receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which,
with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed
behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products
of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes:
a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a
certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole
tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee
arrogance.
from Nietzsche's Assorted Opinions and Maxims,s.
12, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
Even today many educated people think that the victory of
Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior
truth of the former - although in this case it was only the
from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.68, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
Socrates.-- If all goes well, the time will come when one will
take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a
guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most
various philosophical modes of life lead back to him...
Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be
serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of
roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human
soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 86,
R.J.
Hollingdale transl.