Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Great Things
• Monstrous Masks

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Learning

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Believe
  • American

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• Fate is written in the face.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Fate
  • Face
  • Written

• I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Wait

• If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Star
  • Difficult
  • Street

• We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Truth
  • War

• 'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • King

• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Life
  • Business
  • Misfortune

• Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Humanity
  • Spiritual
  • Wealth

• Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi;Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.

  

  Ovid
  • Ego

• I love the song 'Weird' too. It is really weird when you listen to the beat and the words. It's about someone that she's still obsessed with. And everything he does is like he says this, but he does this. And he does this but he says this. It's all twisted around and backwards. She's not really sure who he is or what he does, but she likes it.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • She
  • Song
  • Words

• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Great Things
  • Monstrous Masks