Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Work
  • Done
  • Boring

• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Grow

• Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Long
  • Way
  • Elegance

• I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Determined
  • Make It Happen

• You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Serve

• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hand
  • Poetry
  • Hands

• There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • School
  • Actor
  • Vampire

• When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

  

  La'el Collins
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Attention

• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Children
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

  

  Periander
  • Practice
  • Everything
  • Saying

• Harold, according to some historians, crowned himself with his own hand, without any religious ceremony; and renewing in his heart the ancient spirit of his ancestors, he conceived a hatred for Christianity.

  

  Augustin Thierry
  • Christianity
  • Hatred
  • Ceremony

• The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Absence
  • Virtues
  • Sum

• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Happy
  • Change
  • Experiences

• I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Girls
  • Stays

• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  

  John Gardner
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Terrible

• Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Jealous
  • Succumb