Walter Kaufmann Quotes on Knowledge
Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet and the principal English-language interpreter of Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Walter Kaufmann on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“To translate is to read with double care.”
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“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.”
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“Heresy is a set of opinions "at variance with established or generally received principles." In this sense, heresy is the price of all originality and innovation.”
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“If it does not upset, it is not philosophy.”
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“The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught.”
p. 267