John Cowper Powys vs. Friedrich Nietzsche
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Cowper Powys
1872 – 1963
John Cowper Powys was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934), and Maiden Castle (1936) have been called his Wessex novels.
"This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict betwe…"
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
German philosopher whose work challenged conventional morality and values.
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
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