Quote (#557)

"Become who you are."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We ought to be more focused on enemies without
than preoccupied with finding them within."
- Alan Wolfe

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal,
has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and
is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon

Quote (#505)

Men are alike in their promises. It is
only in their deeds that they differ.
- Moliere

Service to others is the rent you
pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali

In every real man a child is
hidden that wants to play.
- Fredrich Nietzsche

"Flowers grow out
of dark moments."
- Corita Kent

"The sea hath fish for every man."
- William Camden

"Architecture is the will of an
epoch translated into space."
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Quotes (#459)

"Music is essentially
useless, as life is."
- George Santayana

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor
read one a month, and I feel myself
infinitely the happier for it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I owe it all to little
chocolate donuts."
- John Belushi

"The last time anybody made a list of the top
hundred character attributes of New Yorkers,
common sense snuck in at number 79."
- Douglas Adams

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison
we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"
- Al Boliska

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are."
- Paul Tournier

"The best is yet to be ... so do it well."
- "The Man Without a Face" (movie)

"The truth shall make you odd."
- Flannery O'Connor

A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill

Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

A common mistake that people make when trying
to design something completely foolproof is to
underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams

"I love mankind; it's
people I can't stand."
- Charles M. Schulz

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Never let your sense of morals get
in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac Asimov

"I never know how much
of what I say is true."
- Bette Midler

Quotes

"There's no secret about success.
Did you ever know a successful man
who didn't tell you about it?"
- Kin Hubbard

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always get married early in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you
haven't wasted a whole day."
- Mickey Rooney

"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have
to teach them how to look like you."
- Gilda Radner

"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin

"The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously."
- Henry Kissinger

Quotes - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One hears only those questions for
which one is able to find answers.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when
it is shallow, does the enlightened
man dislike to wade into its waters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But
there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause
consists of defending it deliberately with
faulty arguments."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with
lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space
--how should explanation even be possible when we first make
everything into an image, into our own image!
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an
enemy is another enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotaria

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl
kills the first woman she meets and then teams up
with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from
their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened
her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
- Edmund Burke

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that
we do not see the ones which open for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

"A good conscience is
a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is really work unless you
would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie

The advantage of a bad memory is
that one enjoys several times the
same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and
joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration
and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there
is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut

The more you find out about the world, the
more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
- Bill Nye

The penalty for success is to be bored
by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the
abyss also looks into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey

Quotes - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist
on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only
because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to
love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out
of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is done for love always
occurs beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes - Friedrich Nietzsche

We would not let ourselves be burned to death
for our opinions: we are not sure enough of
them for that. But perhaps for the right to
have our opinions and to change them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

All in all, punishment hardens and renders
people more insensible; it concentrates; it
increases the feeling of estrangement; it
strengthens the power of resistance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who despises himself nevertheless
esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great intellects are skeptical.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven
which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all that is written, I love only what
a person has written with his own blood.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotaria - Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against
its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As
for the right way, the correct way,
and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics would certainly have not come into
existence if one had known from the beginning
that there was in nature no exactly straight
line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche