Notre Dame - Boston College Game Preview Oct 23, 2009
Spaziani tapped into a little Friedrich Nietzsche to get his players to respond following the 34-point loss to Virginia Tech. "Don't let the past be an anchor," quoted Spaziani from Nietzsche. (Und.com)
Philip Maddocks: Thousands demand government keep its hands off their anger Sep 19, 2009
Mr. Armey delighted the crowd with quotations from Friedrich Nietzsche, bringing them to their feet when he borrowed the great philosopher s famous line, "To find everything profound that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.". Mr. Army suggested that his own strong anger had been a source of strength and comfort throughout his life and encouraged the gathering to hold steady to their own rage. (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
Asantehene: new progress philosophy May 27, 2009
The German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche argued that the privilege class, or in Africa the Big Man, have the luxury of thinking or contemplating about progress issues because they arent part of the struggling class that do not have the comfort and time to contemplate. By his station and immense gravitas, the Asantehene has the luxury to contemplate about how to play with the development values running Ghana, using his ancient Manhyia Palace as laboratory. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Viereck Revisited May 25, 2009
Yet Viereck recognized that an implacable critic of religion, Friedrich Nietzsche, had been perhaps the first to diagnose the modern mass-man. He associated him with nationalism and with worship of quantity and power, as opposed to quality and thought. (The American Conservative)
We're at the center of the universe - unless we're not Apr 19, 2009
He's a clean, swift writer, as likely to quote John Updike, Thomas Mann, or Friedrich Nietzsche as he is Richard Feynman or Isaac Newton. And this book is very briskly paced; in less than 300 pages, he left me dizzy. (Boston Globe)
''R. Crumb's Underground'' takes a look at the master of mischief Feb 13, 2009
In 1996, Kitchen Sink Press of Massachusetts published a little volume of raunchy drawings by Robert Crumb, a hero of underground comics, called "Art & Beauty Magazine." The drawings, mostly of the kind of buxom, thick-thighed girls in rude health long favored by the notoriously scrawny and bespectacled Crumb, were accompanied by written descriptions ("this study shows a beautiful girl in a frolicsome mood. . .") as well as heady quotes about the nature of art by people like Kenneth Clark,... (Boston Globe)
BETTER LIFE: More on sexual health Feb 11, 2009
Most people would not put the words "Friedrich Nietzsche" and "keeping love alive" in the same sentence. But what the 19th Century German philosopher had to say applies to all kinds of relationships: "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.". (USA Today -- Life)
