Walter Kaufmann Men Quotations

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.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

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.

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.

According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

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.