Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• My Life
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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• Amateurs hope, professionals work.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Professionals

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • May
  • Bad
  • Think

• The sparrow still falls.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Falls
  • Sparrow

• When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Training
  • Needed
  • Improved

• After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Done
  • Movie

• I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Girl

• Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • My Life
  • Belief