Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Win
  • Credit
  • Soldiers

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Decision
  • Hands
  • Bee

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

  

  Arnold Bennett
  • May
  • High
  • Champagne

• Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • Life
  • France
  • Italy

• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Listening

• I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Want
  • Support

• Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

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

  

  Ohtaka Shinobu
  • World
  • Alone

• They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Shot
  • Backstreet Boys

• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Opinion
  • Weak
  • Private

• The way I talk is bizarre.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Bizarre

• 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
  • Leadership
  • Ability

• Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Opportunity
  • Attitude
  • Stone

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Escape
  • Virtues
  • Dancer

• The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Virtues

• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Journey

• Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Stone
  • Illumined