All 5 Uses of
Nietzsche
in
Steppenwolf
- I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.†
- Eighty years before Nietzsche.†
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- A nature such as Nietzsche's had to suffer our present ills more than a generation in advance.†
- In truth, I had little cause to wish to continue in that way which led on into ever thinner air, like the smoke in Nietzsche's harvest song.†
- They were at home in it and knew all its ways— They loved a champagne or a special dish at a restaurant as one of us might a composer or poet, and they lavished the same enthusiasm and rapture and emotion on the latest craze in dances or the sentimental cloying song of a jazz singer as one of us on Nietzsche or Hamsun.†
Definition:
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(Nietzsche as in: Friedrich Nietzsche) influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)