Walter Kaufmann Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“Nietzsche was no proto-Nazi; his thought is the most resolute opposition to mass conformism.”
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“Religion at its best is a way of asking questions, not of refusing them.”
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“Tragedy is the noblest answer to the absurd.”
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“Existentialism is the philosophy of authentic individuality.”
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Attributed to Walter Kaufmann:
“To translate is to read with double care.”