Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • American
  • Universe

• I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Country
  • House
  • Everything

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Author
  • Characters
  • Wants

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Spoken

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I can't hold a grudge anyway.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Hold
  • Grudge
  • Anyway

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Serious
  • Issues
  • Diabetic

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • Beginning
  • Credit
  • Bubble

• It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Art
  • Today
  • Past

• To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

  

  Jordan Spieth
  • Winning
  • Blood
  • Growing Up

• Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Real
  • Philosophy
  • Ignorance

• At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Believes
  • Opposite