Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Opinions
• No Existence

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Care
  • Beauty
  • Looks

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Past
  • Month

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Real
  • Society

• I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • God
  • Influence

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • You
  • Rap
  • Now

• Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Done
  • Birds
  • Longevity

• I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Heaven
  • Summer
  • Breastfeeding

• Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Mankind
  • Nonviolence

• Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

  

  George Eliot
  • Thoughts
  • Behavior
  • Opinions

• And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Feel
  • Inspiration
  • Poets

• Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.

  

  Moshe Vardi
  • Scientist
  • Recognition

• It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mankind
  • Opinions
  • No Existence