Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Party

• In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • First
  • Season
  • Average

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • True

• In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

  

  Paula Fox

• When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

  

  Joe Klein

• My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

  

  Marilyn French
  • Great
  • Water
  • Wine

• I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Time
  • Couple

• When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

  

  John Kruk

• Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Good
  • Fall

• The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Opinion
  • Sales

• If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Power
  • Space

• What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Justice
  • Knows

• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Advantage
  • Injury

• When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Philosophical
  • Discussion

• I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Games
  • Drinking
  • Figure

• One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Luck
  • Found
  • Madness

• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Persistence
  • Charm
  • Attracts