Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • World
  • Question
  • Ego

• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Relationship

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Question
  • Party
  • Independent

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Question
  • Like
  • Information

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Conscience
  • Self-Esteem

• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Soul
  • Question

• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Question

• I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Words

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Question
  • Looks
  • Conscience