Married philosopher  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

"the philosopher shudders mortally at marriage, together with all that could persuade him to it—marriage as a fatal hindrance on the way to the optimum. Up to the present what great philosophers have been married? Heracleitus, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant, Schopenhauer—they were not married, and, further, one cannot imagine them as married. A married philosopher belongs to comedy, that is my rule; as for that exception of a Socrates—the malicious Socrates married himself [to Xanthippe], it seems, ironice, just to prove this very rule." --The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Married philosopher" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools