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Past Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
- Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only…
- All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,…
- 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…
- My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future,…
- The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
- The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!…
- But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are…
- You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your…
- Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
- Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must…
- Every past is worth condemning.
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach