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Present Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
- Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?…
- Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
- 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…
- Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But…
- The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need…
- We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the…
- One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
- As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but…
- The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
- At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
- Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
- Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — 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
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon