Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

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• In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Same
  • Possible

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Opportunity

• I have two poodles - I'm a poodle person.

  

  Kathryn Newton

• If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

  

  Elvis Costello

• I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • High

• The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

  

  Marcel Carne

• I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Life
  • Money

• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

• In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Profound

• I have a strong command of what's going on in the company.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Strong

• Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Lines

• Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Success
  • Political
  • Moments

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Habit
  • Truths
  • Spirits

• Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Sex
  • Girls

• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Spirits

• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Spirits
  • Remedies
  • Limb

• I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

  

  William James
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophical
  • Philosopher

• The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirits
  • Golden Age
  • Source Of Evil