Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Too Much

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society
  • Crush

• I've tried to go on like I never knew youI'm awake but my world is half asleepI pray for this heart to be unbrokenBut without you all I'm going to be is incomplete.

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • World
  • Heart

• A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Long
  • Encouraging

• Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Women
  • May
  • Technology

• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

  

  James Bay
  • Silly

• Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Character
  • Movie

• My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

  

  Elliott Gould
  • Fear

• New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

  

  Jim Himes
  • Blue

• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  

  John Milton

• The best things happen in the dark.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Dark

• The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Lies

• You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

  

  Cris Judd
  • Why
  • Reality
  • Opportunity

• A lot of my friends say, 'Did you even put on makeup?' and that's exactly what I want.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Friends
  • Makeup

• It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Secret
  • Honest
  • Ironic

• All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Pertinacity

• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mistake
  • Forgive
  • Individuality

• The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Understand
  • Paintings
  • Meaningless

• I would argue that Jesus has always been recontextualized by people living in different times and places. The first followers of Jesus did this after they came to believe that he had been raised from the dead and exalted to heaven: they made him into something he had not been before and understood him in light of their new situation. So too did the later authors of the New Testament, who recontextualized and understood Jesus in light of their own, now even more different situations. So too did the Christians of the second and third centuries, who understood Jesus less as an apocalyptic prophet and more as a divine being become human. So too did the Christians of the fourth century, who maintained that he had always existed and had always been equal with God the Father in status, authority, and power. And so too do Christians today, who think that the divine Christ they believe in and confess is identical in every respect with the person who was walking the dusty lanes of Galilee preaching his apocalyptic message of the coming destruction. Most Christians today do not realize that they have recontextualized Jesus. But in fact they have. Everyone who either believes in him or subscribes to any of his teachings has done so—from the earliest believers who first came to believe in his resurrection until today. And so it will be, world without end.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Heaven

• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Joy
  • Living

• It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Meaningless
  • Followers
  • Ceased