Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
Quotes to Explore
-
The American dream is about freedom.
-
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
-
My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
-
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
-
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
-
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
-
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
-
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
-
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
-
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
-
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
-
Belief is thought at rest.
-
I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
-
I hyperventilate quite a lot.
-
Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
-
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
-
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
-
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
-
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
-
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
-
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
-
Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
