Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

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• Failure is a part of success.

  

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• You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they’ll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don’t change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.

  

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• The man of wisdom is the man of years.

  

  Edward Young
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• Almost everything I think we've accomplished for the good of the country has been because of liberals against conservative opposition.

  

  Alan Colmes
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• The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

  

  Christopher Shays
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• ..scumbled froth.. ..capable of indicating a mouth, eyes, a nose with a single stroke of the brush, the rest of the face modeled by the perfect accuracy of these indications.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Perfect
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• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Live
  • Hero
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• The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
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• Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

  

  Archibald Alexander
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• Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
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• Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

  

  Ohtaka Shinobu
  • World
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• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Opinion
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• The way I talk is bizarre.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
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• One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.

  

  John McCormack
  • Time
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• Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

  

  Jack Warner
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• Only the corrupt or the stupid person falls for the open bribe, there are other methods, more insidious, harder to detect, by which the same results are achieved. The favor granted, the casual present bestowed on the unwary, the conferring of benefits that make a decent human being feel indebted. Of all the warnings the one to remain freshest in my memory is Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

  

  Emilie Loring
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• Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Moral
  • Intellectual
  • Virtues

• To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Falls
  • Ropedancer