"Not the intensity but the duration of..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.”
“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!”
“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”
More on Greatness
“It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.”
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
“Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.”
More on Emotion
“He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.”
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”
“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”