The only fault one can impute to genuinely fine writings is that they are usually the cause of very many bad or mediocre ones.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
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[Beethoven] quoted a contemporary comment on artists: “Unfortunately, mediocre talents are condemned to imitate the faults of the great masters without appreciating their beauties: from thence comes the harm that Michelangelo does to painting, Shakespeare to drama and, in our day, Beethoven to music.”
— Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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Andrew Tate seems to fancy himself as a kind of Nietzschean Übermensch, a strong, powerful individual that has risen above society’s norms and become the best version of himself. But besides both men being accused of misogyny, there is nothing else the two share in outlook. Asceticism and a love for eternal, idealised archetypes at the expense of the ever-changing and evolving world of the senses would have left Nietzsche distinctly unimpressed.
— Alexis Papazoglo, “Andrew Tate, Nietzsche and the Matrix“