Author: Friedrich Nietszche

Cited by

• Donna Tartt (1)
  • IN: The Secret History (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.
    FROM: Unzeitgemdsse Betrachtungen, (1873), NULL, Germany
• Brian Keene (1)
  • IN: Terminal (2004) Horror, Fiction, Suspense, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To many men life is a failure A poison worm gnawing at their heart Then let them see to it That their dying is all the more a success
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Don and Pezzullo, Ralph Mann (1)
  • IN: Hunt the Jackal (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    FROM: Maxims and Arrows in Twilight of the Idols, (1889), Book, Germany
• Donald Westlake (1)
  • IN: The Hot Rock (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The criminal is the type of the strong man in unfavorable surroundings, the strong man made sick.
    FROM: Twilight of the Idols, (1889), Book, Germany
• Don Pendleton (1)
  • IN: War Against the Mafia (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, (1885), Book, Germany