Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Running

• People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Always

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Know
  • Community
  • Office

• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Bread

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Sports
  • Back
  • Go

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Errors
  • Truths
  • Venerated

• At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Work
  • Coffee
  • Break

• I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Dreams
  • Tobacco
  • Converts

• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Dreams
  • Awake