Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Fear
  • Respect

• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Question

• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Silent
  • Affairs

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Child

• The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fear

• If it's not messy and it doesn't drip over the sides, it's not a holiday hot chocolate -it's just an average hot chocolate.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Holiday
  • Chocolate

• I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

  

  Mary Karr

• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Interesting
  • Perfect
  • Blonde

• Fear is the mother of morality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mother
  • Fear