Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Judge
  • Vote
  • Presidential

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Opportunities

• In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Children
  • Special
  • Bond

• She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • She
  • Road

• He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Truth
  • True
  • Game

• Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Real
  • Poverty
  • Daily

• If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Spirit
  • Believers

• It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Religious

• I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Vulnerability
  • Authenticity

• I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I'm the voice of a Chipotle Burrito. The world has changed.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • World

• Converting Facebook data into money is harder than it sounds, mostly because the vast bulk of your user data is worthless. Turns out your blotto-drunk party pics and flirty co-worker messages have no commercial value whatsoever.

  

  Antonio Garcia Martinez
  • Money
  • Party
  • Value

• I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Reading

• I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

  

  Peter Mandelson
  • Space

• Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Circumstances
  • Creators
  • Self-mutilation

• I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

  

  William Klein
  • Photography
  • Needed
  • Balls

• What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Giving
  • Deserve

• Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Impossible
  • Escape
  • Recurs

• The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get on base and set the tone.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Set
  • Tone
  • Hitter

• Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believers
  • Seeks
  • Creators