Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • World
  • Water
  • Air

• I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Today
  • Path

• It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Single
  • Persons
  • Ifs

• Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

  

  R.K. Narayan
  • Death
  • Produce
  • Shock

• Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Men
  • Real

• Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • People
  • Ignorant
  • Ignorant People

• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Age
  • Superiority
  • Aristocracy

• They're shooting almost 40 percent. That in itself is remarkable, unheard of. It converts to a lot of points. And to have to recycle our team to find a way to match up against them is not easy. It's not conventional.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Way
  • Team

• For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Nature
  • Machinery
  • Epicurus

• If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Argument
  • Repeat

• To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• ...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Existence
  • Element

• Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

  

  Pythagoras
  • Sleep
  • Reflection
  • Times

• The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Satisfied
  • Stomach

• There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dangerous
  • Consequence
  • Mistaking

• No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?

  

  Bernard Ramm
  • Bible
  • Attack
  • Mass

• There's no doubt that on the issue of abortion, oftentimes it's very difficult to split the difference, although we can agree on the notion that none of us are pro-abortion and all of us would like to see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies, for example, and we could focus on those issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Focus
  • Doubt

• The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequence
  • Attack
  • Defence