Quotes About Fati

#1. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Andy Stanley

#5. Moody had left all discerning faculties in the pitching belly of the barque Godspeed. He wanted only shelter, and solitude.

Eleanor Catton

#6. Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

S.I. Hayakawa

#8. In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

#9. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

Alec-Tweedie

#10. On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

Cilla Black

#11. Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.

Stephen King

#12. And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas.

Louise Penny

#13. In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Maureen F. McHugh

#14. Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Bertrand Russell

#15. It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

Ernst Cassirer

#16. Love transforms the world into a magical land.

Debasish Mridha

#17. It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

Wilhelm II

#18. I am a bad boy." He hops on his bike, and I do the same. "That's exactly why you should stay far, far away from me.

Addison Moore