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Quotes from Nietzsche: Life as Literature — Alexander Nehamas

born 1946 Greece

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The one reaction Nietzsche cannot tolerate is indifference, and this is what his use of hyperbole is designed to eliminate.

Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)

Irony, which in Socrates’ case consists of saying “too little,” functions for him just as hyperbole, which is saying “too much,” functions for Nietzsche.

Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)

Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)

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