Will To Power Quotes
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.
The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.
God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.
Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.