Alexander Nehamas

"Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audien…"

"Irony, which in Socrates’ case consists of saying “too little,” functions for him just as hyperbole, which is saying “too much,” functions for Nietzsche."

"To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms."

"According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely i…"

"All we are now concerned with is the search for “new and improved” version of whatever means are already available for attaining goals such means make possible. The value of the goals themselves is ir…"

"For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself."

"The one reaction Nietzsche cannot tolerate is indifference, and this is what his use of hyperbole is designed to eliminate."