Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Quotes to Explore
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
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When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.
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Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
