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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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

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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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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

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It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

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In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

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Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

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Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

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I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

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