Quotes About Influence

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Whatever they may think and say about their egoism, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

Interpreting myself, I always read Myself into my books. I clearly need Some help. But all who climb on their own way Carry my image, too, into the breaking day.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

This is precisely why the Jews are the most disastrous people in world history: they have left such a falsified humanity in their wake that even today Christians can think of themselves as anti-Jewish without understanding that they are the ultimate conclusion of Judaism.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.

When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.

Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs?

The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied

Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things. To execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things.

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.

It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which German philosophy--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.

AÅŸa gr?ieÅŸte bufonul: «RelaÅ£ia cu oamenii corupe caracterul ÅŸi mai cu seam? când acesta îÅ£i lipseÅŸte.»

What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!