The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
