Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

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• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

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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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• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

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• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  

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• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

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• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

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• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

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• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

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• Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

  

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• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

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• The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

  

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• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

  

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• The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

  

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• The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

  

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• I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

  

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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  

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• If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful SOCIALIST government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world ...

  

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• I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

  

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• I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

  

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• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Rule
  • Qualities
  • Authorities