Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Never
  • Nervous

• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Self

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Civilization

• The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • History
  • Intelligent

• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bridge

• People judged my work without to have listened to it.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Work
  • Without

• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• 'Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.'

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Independent

• 'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Light
  • Lost

• I think music changes and it evolves.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Music

• I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • World
  • Country
  • Family

• Christian followers of Jesus who knew about Apollonius maintained that he was a charlatan and a fraud; in response, the pagan followers of Apollonius asserted that Jesus was the charlatan and fraud. Both groups could point to the authoritative written accounts of their leader’s life to score their debating points.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Leader

• The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

  

  Georges Cuvier
  • Nature
  • Questions
  • Reveal

• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• I hate the movies. For the past eight years, I have been making pictures – almost all of them terrible. When I first went into the movies, I felt that I had found a medium which would develop my acting ability. I wanted the experience, I have always loved to work. I made several pictures that were good. If you remember, in my first stories, I had considerable success. After that, I came to realize that it wasn’t my acting ability they wanted; it was just my name.

  

  Pauline Frederick
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Name

• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche