 | Rose Pfeffer - 1972 - 308 pages
...Science the cry of the madman announces the death of God and with it the rise of a nihilistic age: Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern...standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. "Did he get lost?" said one. "Did he lose his way like a child?" said another. "Or is he hiding? Is... | |
 | Walter Kaufmann - 1974 - 556 pages
...later, 'a few American Protestant theologians derived inspiration — and this slogan. those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he... | |
 | David J. Hawkin, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1985 - 197 pages
...Nietzsche dubs "Platonism for the masses." But two thousand years of Christianity are coming to an end: Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern...incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. . . . The madman... | |
 | Georges Bataille - 1985 - 308 pages
...dream-lantern the mystery of the DEATH OF GOD. The Prophecy of Nietzsche "Have you not heard," cried Nietzsche, "of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!' — As many of those who did not believe... | |
 | Georges Bataille - 1985 - 308 pages
...cried Nietzsche, "of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!' — As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost?... | |
 | Milton K. Munitz - 1992 - 228 pages
..."God is dead!" One well-known passage in which Nietzsche makes this dramatic claim is the following: Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern...provoked much laughter. Why, did he get lost? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on... | |
 | Ignacio Larrañaga - 1992 - 340 pages
...stripped off. Nothing makes sense and Nietzsche's description in Thus Spoke Zamthustra comes true: Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who did not believe in... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson - 1993 - 196 pages
...proposing new "post-Christian" myths, such as those in the two texts that follow. The madman.—Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in...place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1995 - 292 pages
...It is something new in history that knowledge wants to be more than a mere means. 125. The madman. Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern...incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost?... | |
 | Brian D. Ingraffia - 1995 - 308 pages
...transcendent realm, the loss of this God means the loss of all truth to this culture. As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he... | |
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Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God! 
