Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.

Chris Martin Coldplay
- House
- Built
- Less
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

Gaston Bachelard
- Dream
- Wish
- Present
Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Flann O'Brien
- Built
- Rome
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Life
- Built
- Aging
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang-tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Oscar Wilde
- Life
- Family
- Healthy