Recently Added Quotes |
Subject |
Quote |
Author |
| Hatred |
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| Time |
"I confess, I do not believe in time." |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| Politicians |
"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you." |
Ralph Nader |
| Men |
"Women are among the most gracious phenomenons ever to walk the earth. I only sympathize for the many men who consider to be more manly is to be as much not like a woman." |
Stuart Nail |
| Women |
"Women are among the most gracious phenomenons ever to walk the earth. I only sympathize for the many men who consider to be more manly is to be as much not like a woman." |
Stuart Nail |
| Alcohol |
"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker." |
Ogden Nash |
| Voting |
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." |
George Jean Nathan |
| Speech |
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. |
John von Neumann |
| Life |
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning." |
John Henry Cardinal Newman |
| Seclusion |
"You only grow when you are alone." |
Paul Newman |
| Death |
"Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile." |
Jack Nicholson |
| Humanity |
"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch." |
Jack Nicholson |
| Men |
"How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." |
Jack Nicholson |
| Murder |
"Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile." |
Jack Nicholson |
| Women |
"How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." |
Jack Nicholson |
| Adversity |
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Afterlife |
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Alcohol |
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| America |
"In music the passions enjoy themselves." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| America |
"If Goethe is a transposed painter and Schiller a transposed orator, then Wagner is a transposed actor." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Appearances |
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Appearances |
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naïvety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man--the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Art / Artists |
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Art / Artists |
"Art is the proper task of life." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Boredom |
"Plato was a bore." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Boredom |
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Brevity |
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Censorship |
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Censorship |
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Character |
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Charity |
"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Charity |
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Charity |
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Common Sense |
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Common Sense |
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Communication |
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Communication |
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Conformism |
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Conformism |
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Creativity |
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Dating |
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Dating |
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Dating |
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Death |
"To friend Overbeck and wife. Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts--for example, to you. I am just having all anti-Semites shot. Signed, Dionysus" |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Death |
"One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Death |
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Death |
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Deceit |
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Deceit |
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Direction |
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Discomfort |
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Discovery |
"The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Education |
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Education |
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Education |
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Education |
"The doer alone learneth." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Education |
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Error |
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Excellence |
"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Excellence |
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Façade |
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Failure |
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Family |
"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Fate |
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Forgiveness |
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Freedom |
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Freedom |
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Friends |
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Friends |
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Friends |
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"The last Christian died on the cross." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God |
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Government |
"The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Guilt |
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Guilt |
"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Hatred |
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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