Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• May

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Conflict
  • Dollar

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur
  • News

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Long
  • New

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• These are rotten, so you’re the QueenOf all are living, or have been.

  

  John Millington Synge

• The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss

• I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Die
  • Worry

• Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • World
  • May
  • Lies

• No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • May