Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines,

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space — how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! – Friedrich Nietzsche

Other quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Other Quotes from
Image
category

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. – Milan Kundera

Category:
Image

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

Category:
Image

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. – Paul De Man

Category:
Image

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. – Werner Herzog

Category:
Image

Random Quotes

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. – C. S. Lewis

Category:
Men

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo

Category:
alone

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. – Moliere

Category:
famous

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Beauty