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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.