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“The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

“Dostojewski schrieb einmal: Ist Gott erst tot, ist alles erlaubt. Das mag zutreffen. Aber, wie die Geschichte lehrt, gilt auch der Satz: mit Berufung auf Gott hat man sich schon alles erlaubt.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Wieviel Globalisierung verträgt der Mensch?

“I am trying to add a book -that i am reading now.
In spanisch- Schiller o la invención del idealismo alemán
Best regards
Jorge”
― Rudiger Safranski

“And since he was unable to give him any form, he would honor him with his works: Natural products were to be a simile for the world, and above them would burn a flame symbolizing the spirit of man, yearning upwards toward its maker.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

“Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consequences of Socrates' disastrous idea that 'everything must be conscious to be good.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

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― Rüdiger Safranski, SCHOPENHAUER Y LOS AÑOS SALVAJES DE LA FILOSOFIA

“«Uno quisiera estar afuera, pero no hay afuera».”
― Rüdiger Safranski, SCHOPENHAUER Y LOS AÑOS SALVAJES DE LA FILOSOFIA

“El que quiere serlo todo no puede llegar a ser nada»”
― Rüdiger Safranski, SCHOPENHAUER Y LOS AÑOS SALVAJES DE LA FILOSOFIA

“Schopenhauer dreamed a different dream: perhaps reason might detach itself, if only for a few moments, from will, so that the will might relax into playing and reason into pure seeing. He dreamed this dream in philosophy, in art, and above all in music. Never before and never since has such moving philosophy been made about music as by Schopenhauer" - Safranski”
― Safranski

“El hecho de que unos creen arte mientras otros padecen, ¿no es una prueba escandalosa de la injusticia del mundo? ¿Cómo pueden concordar entre sí el sollozo del mundo y el canto del arte?”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Nietzsche: Biografía de su pensamiento (Tiempo de Memoria)

“Es necesario estar desilusionado y, sin embargo, apasionadamente enamorado de la vida, aun cuando se haya descubierto su gran futilidad.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Nietzsche: Biografía de su pensamiento (Tiempo de Memoria)

“I had really lost her, and the madness with which I avenged my mistakes on myself, by assaulting my physical self in several senseless ways in order to punish my moral self, contributed very much to the bodily ills under which I lost some of the best years of my life.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

“…we are not humans from the start; we need to become human. Toward this end, we need the insight “that only we are responsible for ourselves, that accusations that we have missed our life’s calling can be directed only at us, not some higher powers”. We are in no need of the delusion of a supernatural world, because the very task of becoming human is the truly colossal achievement.”
― Rudiger Safranski, Nietzsche - Biografia de uma tragedia