Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Day
  • Child
  • Doing

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Key
  • Apple

• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Political

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

  

  Sam Richards
  • Way
  • Study
  • Things

• I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Energy

• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Find

• You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Brother

• I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • You
  • Way

• The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Family
  • Love
  • May

• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Words

• I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

  

  James Mattis
  • Couple

• When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

  

  Brené Brown

• My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.

  

  Patti Smith
  • World
  • Job
  • Parents

• Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche