Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.
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If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
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She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.
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You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.
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People would use each other in their works. The barriers were breaking down; everyone brought in special qualities.
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.
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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.
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You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to keep going, and you have a greater drive than other people - who may be more happy and balanced in life - because you have to keep going out and proving yourself over and over again.
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There is this power that comes with being famous.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
