A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Bad Bad Thing Bad Things Every Good Good Thing Good Things Original Original Sin Sin Things Turned Virtue Were

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

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

Warren Farrell

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Edward Abbey

We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

Alfred Gough

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

Olympia Dukakis

When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

Marina Warner

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Fran Lebowitz

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

Darren Aronofsky

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Alfred Rosenberg

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Kevin Costner

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Tom Stoppard

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

John Fund

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

John Scalzi

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.