Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  

  Walter Pater
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• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

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• What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

  

  Asia Argento
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• There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  

  Colin Farrell
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• I wouldn't ask him to go on the trip. We want him to stay behind, work out and get an opportunity to condition himself. It makes no sense for him to go along on the trip and stay in the hotel while we play.

  

  Phil Jackson
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• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
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• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  

  Robert Frost
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• You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

  

  Tacitus
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• Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

  

  Fanny Jackson Coppin
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• No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

  

  Heraclitus
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• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.

  

  Aristotle
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• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

  

  Mordecai Richler
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• To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

  

  Lou Holtz
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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Question
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• Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Condition
  • Good Man
  • Pharisaism