When Nietzsche Wept (2007)

Katheryn Winnick: Lou Salome

Quotes 

• Lou Salome : [about Nietzsche's advances]  I wanted to learn, not to submit.

• Lou Salome : Fascinating lecture to fall on so few ears. Why are people so afraid of you, Professor?

  Nietzsche : Oh, Truth is a fearsome thing.

  Lou Salome : Why do you say, 'God is dead', and not that He never existed?

  Nietzsche : What do you think?

  Lou Salome : That God has ceased to be a reckoning force in people's lives.

  Nietzsche : An interesting interpretation.

  Lou Salome : But if God is dead, then everything is permissible. No morals, no rules. Without God, who will organise our society? What is the solution to your 'Godless' proposition?

  Nietzsche : [laughs]  Well, from what stars have we dropped down to each other here?

  [kisses her hand] 

  Nietzsche : Auf wiedersehen!

• [first lines] 

  Lou Salome : [writing a letter]  Dr. Breuer, I must see you on a matter of life or death. Meet at nine tomorrow morning, at the Cafe Rousse.