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Work Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
- The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like…
- 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…
- To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet…
- It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he…
- A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all…
- Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
- Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How…
- Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the…
- Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
- Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific…
- When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is…
- The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
- One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
- The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
- We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to…
- What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a…
- Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by…
- There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art,…
- There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach