Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Me

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Word
  • Meaning
  • Cut

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Achieve
  • Human Life
  • Compromises

• Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• Courage is crossing a starting line.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Courage
  • Line
  • Crossing

• Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Class
  • Ireland
  • Castes

• Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fate
  • Meaning
  • Human Life