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Common Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their…
- The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
- Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in…
- Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
- The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
- All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very…
- Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
- Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
- I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie…
- The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
- There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for…
- Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you…
- The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
- To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience;…
- One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should…
- What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?
- Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin