Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Franz Boas

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought

Franz Grillparzer

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Franz Grillparzer

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Jeff Lindsay

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Jeanette Winterson

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

Jeanette Winterson

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

Jewel

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

Jerry West

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Jen Lancaster

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

Jeaniene Frost

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Jeaniene Frost

Luscious, aren't I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don't mind.” -“You look like a Dracula porn movie reject” -“Let‟s not speak of him. Like the devil, Vlad might appear if we do.” Denise & Ian

Jim Doyle

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes.

Jerry Lawler

There's one thing that comes into mind when I see Trish Stratus... MANAGEMENT

Jeremy Irvine

I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.

Jeff Cooper

The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time. Be aware.Be ready.Be alert.

Jeff Cooper

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

Jeff Bridges

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

Georges Bataille

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Georges Bataille

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

Jeff Olson

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

George Best

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

George Berkeley

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Gena Showalter

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Frederick Wiseman

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

J. I. Packer

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.