Quotes for All
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I’ve published something, I’ll meet someone who says, \”I’m Haitian, and I don’t know this, so it must not be true.\” Even if we’re talking about a work of fiction. I’ve gotten very angry myself reading many things about Haiti. We’re not a … Read more
This woman’s work is exceptional. Too bad she’s not a man. Edouard Manet
I’m fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it’s custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. Eddie Redmayne
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. E. L. Doctorow
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover–what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him. Friedrich Nietzsche
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of … Read more
From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love brings to light a lover’s noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. Friedrich Nietzsche
I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the … Read more
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated Friedrich Nietzsche