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in reply to @scottrl This is my last one for the night, which is now morning.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche was also credited with "How much vood vood a voodchuk chuk if a voodchuk cood chuk vood?"
But I'm pretty sure it was Turgenev.
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Meh. Nietzsche was a madman. An interesting one, perhaps, but a madman nonetheless.
"I am having all the anti-Semites shot." -- Nietzsche
Personally, I think Nietzsche never got past embarrassing himself over Cosima Wagner and spent the rest of his life trying to get over it. Until he went completely nuts, that is, and forgot that he'd ever written anything.
The kindest that one could say about Nietzsche is from Walter Kaufmann:
"He challenges readers not so much to agree or disagree, but to think."
Well, I've thought about it, and I think he was a madman.
Nietzsche should have stuck with philology.
Tolstoy had his number: "Neither in talent nor in their basic argument do these writings justify public attention."