Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

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• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

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• With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Goal
  • Regard
  • Metaphysics