Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  

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• I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

  

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• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

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• Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

  

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• One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

  

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• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  

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• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

  

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• A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

  

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• When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

  

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• I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

  

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• No Such Thing as Bad Results.

  

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• Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

  

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• These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

  

  John Milton
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• When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

  

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• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

  

  Terence McKenna
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• To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Impulse
  • Tyrant
  • Yields