Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra Quotes & Sayings

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

Of the three things that most people know about the horse, the third is that, over a short distance, it can't run as fast as a man. As Rincewind had learned to his advantage, it has more legs to sort out. — Terry Pratchett

The "conference room" is actually the library since it's the only space other than the morgue fridge big enough to hold this many people, and Hurley and I already have dibs on that other room. As we enter the library, a cacophony of noise greets us. Everyone is talking to everyone else and most of the voices are a mere gnat's ass away from shouting. Hurley's little pup tent is safe, assuming it's still up, because our entry into the room goes unnoticed by everyone other than Izzy. — Annelise Ryan

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn - to laugh! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love? — Friedrich Nietzsche

No one crosses my friends and gets away with it. Not even the devil. If he so much as tries to lay a finger on you, I'll glitter bomb the shit out of him. — Laura Thalassa

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Like Dr. Johnson, I'm an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits. — Gretchen Rubin

Destiny is what is happening to you right now. — Stephen Richards

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. — Joseph De Maistre

I'll take her home. You guys finish ... whatever ... you were doing. She glances to me, a slight blush on her face. I tug Cash's borrowed shirt down, hiding my red ass cheek. The spatula is still in his hand. He's only wearing boxers. Dear Lord. — Pella Grace

But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. — Dante Alighieri

WHEN Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart - and rising one morning with the dawn, he went before the sun, and spoke thus to it: — Friedrich Nietzsche

Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" - it follows that the governed must, in order to exercise their right of consent, have full freedom of expression. — Thomas I. Emerson

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it. - Nathan — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. — Charles Bukowski

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere
until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection ... Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've spent half my life on planes. — Alice Englert