Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  

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• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

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• Everything I say is true.

  

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• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

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• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

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• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

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• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

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• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

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• I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

  

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• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

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• I was always the weirdo at school.

  

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• My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

  

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  

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• I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

  

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• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  

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• Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!

  

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• Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.

  

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• I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

  

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• My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

  

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• Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feelings
  • Egoism
  • Decrease