Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Eternity
• Human being
• Idealism

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• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Football

• I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Said
  • Lying

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Successful

• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Light
  • Responsibility

• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Theatre
  • Shows

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

  

  Mary Violet Heberden
  • People

• How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

  

  Lisa See
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Minds

• I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Good
  • Women
  • Lost

• If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Parents

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Government
  • Growth

• When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Beauty
  • Need
  • Eternity

• If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.

  

  Al-Maʿarri
  • Death
  • Eternity
  • Breath

• Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Eternity

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eternity
  • Human being
  • Idealism