We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much m...
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liber...
STOKELY CARMICHAEL When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveye...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The voice of the Real Madrid members has been expressed clearly and emphatically,
FLORENTINO PEREZ I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only...
WILLIAM AMES It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get i...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of trut...
DJAYAWARMAN ALAMPRABU Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is l...
JIM WALSH It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.
ORAN KANGAS What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever re...
DOUGLAS ADAMS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the ...
HERBERT READ The modern idea of home has been well expressed as the place one goes from the garage
GEORGE WICKERSHAM I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless
PETER WALKER It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We often go through life with blinders on. Not always because we refuse to see what is obvious or th...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???
What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone an...
ERNESTINE ROSE A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
ROBERT OXTON BOLTON A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that
possesses the mind.
ROBERT BOLTON A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind
ROBERT OXTON BOLTON I think that [the opening] means a lot to the township and a lot to SAC (Save Ardmore Coalition). Th...
JAMIE LOKOFF We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is no...
ALPHA OUMAR KONARE It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, wh...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Focus on the Positive Refuse to accept Limits Have an Open Heart
DANA MALLON Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal ins...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have be...
FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER Both of those guys are good in the post. They really set the tone for us inside. Wilcox has been pla...
COLEMAN SMITH We all have been given an inner voice to guide us. All we have to do is listen.
JIM GENOVESE Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a danger...
LEMONY SNICKET Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible...
JAMES C. DOBSON We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems p...
E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS Many refuse to accept the reality of a personal God because they are unwilling to submit to His auth...
KURT BRUNER It would be a shame not to have an aircraft carrier because we know the public looks forward to seei...
ELLEN KENNEDY Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK We refuse to accept forest fires as inevitable, the international experience shows that it is possib...
ANTONIO COSTA There is an idea which we will present to the Israeli side. We hope to reach an acceptable solution ...
MAHMUD ABBAS Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections.
KRISHNA SITAULA Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an...
HENRY MILLER It takes steel nerves to accept that we are a product of useless education system which has turned u...
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Lack is more of an acceptance of it in your life than a condition...you accept it, and it shows up.....
DOUG FIREBAUGH The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothin...
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT I have done my best to fulfil my responsibility to him and to the party in circumstances which were ...
SIR MENZIES CAMPBELL In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possib...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately,...
SHUNRYU SUZUKI President Bush has made some statements suggesting the US would accept whatever democratic outcome c...
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA The idea of training the brain gives us hope. I think many of us are overly frightened of getting ol...
RIKA KAYAMA Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms w...
JENNY SHIPLEY If you could imagine dissonance assuming human form - and what else is man? - this dissonance would ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amo...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunat...
SHUNRYU SUZUKI Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunat...
SHINICHI SUZUKI [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it...
MILAN KUNDERA Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, beca...
BOB GELDOF The idea is to reduce weaving, which has been the bottleneck up to this point.
GEORGE SANTANA ...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
JOHN GEDDES There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because ye...
SAMUEL BECKETT An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY Conceiving & believing an idea is akin to planting a seed into the soil,for the moment you conceive ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where...
MURRAY KEMPTON Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us ag...
ROSENSTOCK HUESSY You know in his tone of voice, his facial expressions. When he has a meeting, he doesn't have to scr...
TINO MARTINEZ The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself, and an inability to ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possib...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Light shines upon us inspiration, and as it falls quietly over us,
our thoughts find a voice, dark, ...
JILL ANZINGER Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It's been an amazing help in catching child support offenders. We're glad we have the system because...
CINDY PRICE But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.
CHARLES GRANT The Best Way To Get Someone Else To Accept Your Idea Is To Convince Them That They Played An Importa...
DONALD LYNN FROST An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
JAMES A. MICHENER Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in wh...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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I slept my sleep--,
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...
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