" According to Nietzsche, it is only when nihilism is overcome that a culture can have a true foundation upon which to thrive.

* According to Nietzsche, in Greek " oi " was an expression of pain, and someone who was in pain or miserable was said to be " oizuros ".

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philologist and philosopher, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos, a major Greek historian, Demosthenes was a student of Isocrates ; according to Cicero, Quintillian and the Roman biographer Hermippus, he was a student of Plato.

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

According to Ronald Merrill, Kira in the first edition " adopts in the most explicit terms possible the ethical position of Friedrich Nietzsche.

According to Heidegger, it is the burden imposed by the question of eternal recurrence — whether or not such a thing could possibly be true — that is so significant in modern thought: " The way Nietzsche here patterns the first communication of the thought of the ' greatest burden ' eternal recurrence makes it clear that this ' thought of thoughts ' is at the same time ' the most burdensome thought.

According to Nietzsche, they have "... the toughest national will to life which has ever existed on earth.

" According to Nietzsche, the redeemer type is determined by a morbid intolerance of pain.

According to Kaufmann, Nietzsche was referring to Dostoevsky's book The Idiot and its naïve protagonist.

According to Nietzsche, one of the thieves, who was also being crucified, said, " This was truly a divine man, a child of God!

According to Santayana, Nietzsche was actually " a keen satirist ".

According to Steven Aschheim ( The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany ( 1992 ) p. 48, footnote ) his 1911 Nietzsche and Art was ' a unique attempt to write a Nietzschean history of art in terms of rising aristocratic and decadent-democratic epochs '.

According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

According to Clement, through conversion to Christianity alone can man fully participate in the Logos, which is universal truth.

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

According to Sandra Frankiel, the records of " Jesus ' life and death, his acts and words " provide the " founding myths " of Christianity.

According to Eliade, Christianity retains a sense of cyclical time, through the ritual commemoration of Christ's life and the imitation of Christ's actions ; Eliade calls this sense of cyclical time a " mythical aspect " of Christianity.

According to Christianity Today, " The emerging movement is a protest against much of evangelicalism as currently practiced.

According to its first translator, it was written in Wroxeter by a Christian man called Vinisius to a Christian woman called Nigra, and was claimed as the first epigraphic record of Christianity in Britain.

According to the archaeological finds, Christianity gained a foothold in Finland during the 11th century.

According to Van Voorst, the statement " those that loved him at the first did not forsake him " has the characteristics of Josephus ' writing and points to the continuation of Christianity.

According to Mormons, a Great Apostasy began in Christianity not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ ,.

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

According to this view, human society was formerly a matriarchy, with communities being egalitarian, pacifistic and focused on the worship of the Goddess ; such a society was subsequently overthrown by violent patriarchal hordes who worshiped male sky gods and who continued to rule through the form of Christianity.

According to Christianity a convert is one who renounces sin as worthless and treasures instead the supreme worth of Jesus Christ ; the convert sees the worth of Christ in Jesus ' sacrificial death and resurrection and renounces sin.

According to Western sources, the ruler of Friesland was converted to Christianity by the Franks.

According to Jewish tradition ( adopted by Christianity ) the Torah was dictated to Moses by God, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy which describe the death and burial of Moses.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " The enthusiasm felt for the Zohar was shared by many Christian scholars, such as Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Johann Reuchlin, Aegidius of Viterbo, etc., all of whom believed that the book contained proofs of the truth of Christianity.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " This and other similar doctrines found in the Zohar are now known to be much older than Christianity, but the Christian scholars who were led by the similarity of these teachings to certain Christian dogmas deemed it their duty to propagate the Zohar.

* According to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo-Saxons convert to Christianity after the Second Battle of Badon.

According to chroniclers such as Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity.

According to Irenaeus, the Judaistic Ebionites charged less than one hundred years after the Apostles that the Christians overruled the authority of Scripture by failing to keep the Mosaic Law ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ).

According to author David W. Marshall, extreme and obsessive loathing of Christianity had long been the norm of black and death metal bands, but in the 1990s Bathory and many other bands began turning away from Satan as the primary opposition to Christianity, instead placing their faith in Vikings and Odin.

According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, and herself converted hundreds of people to Christianity.

According to Heine, pantheism had been repressed by Christianity and had survived in German folklore.

According to Pausanias ( 6. 18. 6 ), Anaximenes was " the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Athanasius, the devil fought St. Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

As a result, his art was sometimes criticized as being “ vulgar ,” because he painted what he saw: “ rutted and edged hodgepodge of bushes, mounds of earth, and trees in various stages of development .” According to one source, details such as those were equivalent to today ’ s art showing garbage cans or beer bottles on the side of a street scene.

According to Hans Richter, Dada was not art, it was " anti-art.

According to psychologism, logic would not be an autonomous discipline, but a branch of psychology, either proposing a prescriptive and practical " art " of correct judgement ( as Brentano and some of his more orthodox students did ) or a description of the factual processes of human thought.

According to many art researchers, particularly in the Netherlands and in Los Angeles, that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or in the achievement of a political goal.

According to Coke, Garnet instigated the plot: " hath many gifts and endowments of nature, by art learned, a good linguist and, by profession, a Jesuit and a Superior as indeed he is Superior to all his predecessors in devilish treason, a Doctor of Dissimulation, Deposing of Princes, Disposing of Kingdoms, Daunting and deterring of subjects, and Destruction.

According to Bruce Johnson, jazz music has always had a " tension between jazz as a commercial music and an art form ".

According to the Hermitage website, this was the largest private contribution to state art museums since the October Revolution.

According to Arasse, the treatise, which in France went into sixty two editions in fifty years, caused Leonardo to be seen as " the precursor of French academic thought on art ".

According to Maya Lin, art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar.

According to Bruce Lee, martial arts also have the nature of an art, since there is emotional communication and complete emotional expression.

According to anthropologist Roger D. Abrahams, these traditional performance art forms are " Nevisian approximation of British performance codes, techniques, and patterns ".

According to Simon Frith pop music is produced " as a matter of enterprise not art ", is " designed to appeal to everyone " and " doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste ".

According to Aristotle, this art of persuasion could be used in public settings in three different ways.

According to Vasari, antique art was central to the rebirth of Italian art.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

" According to Bill Nichols, it " achieves the force of authentic art, profoundly disturbing, intensely personal, yet at the same time far more than personal ".