Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

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• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

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• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

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• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

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• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• Go West, young man.

  

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• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

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• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

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• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

  

  B. B. King
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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

  

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• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
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• I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  

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• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

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• Under constrained discretion, the central bank is free to do its best to stabilize output and employment in the face of short-run disturbances, with the appropriate caution born of our imperfect knowledge of the economy and of the effects of policy (this is the 'discretion' part of constrained discretion).

  

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• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Strong
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• Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
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• Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Play
  • Assuming