Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
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I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
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One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
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So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
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There's ego in all of us rugby players.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
