Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

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• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Done
  • English

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Chinese

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Immigration

• I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • World
  • Lost

• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Future
  • Light
  • Morning

• I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

  

  E. B. White
  • Courage

• In 2007, I discovered I was a father to a little boy who I did not know about. After being on MTV's 'The Real World' and traveling the world, I was greeted by a stack of papers on my doorstep informing me that I had a child.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • World
  • Real
  • Father

• There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Realities
  • Idols