Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Long Quotes, People Quotes

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

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When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

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Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

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