A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Coarse Knowing Nature Owes Refined Some Thanks

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German - Philosopher
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

Kevin Drum

Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

Al Murray

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Jose Canseco

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

Rza

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

George M. Cohan

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Peter Drucker

Mother Nature give me a hell of a body. My parents or whatever. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Mother of nature... From Russia with love.

Alexander Ovechkin

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Patton Oswalt

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Douglas William Jerrold

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.