Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

  

  Tad Williams
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Book
  • Age
  • First

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Fighting
  • Act

• I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Focus

• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • Romantic

• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Forever

• I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Things
  • Person

• All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

  

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