Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

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• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Easy
  • Transition

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Play
  • Competition
  • Golf

• Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • God
  • Death

• Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Live

• He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Generosity

• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

  

  Frank Stella
  • World
  • Art

• In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Good

• Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Why
  • Band

• I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Good
  • School
  • Family

• Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

  

  John Belushi
  • College

• There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Bible
  • Greek
  • Meditate

• In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Contributing
  • Going Out

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Privilege
  • Condemned
  • Contributing