“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” NeedsFactsHappenedAdventureShadowMereEndureForgottenTalesBeing TrueDustAshesSandman Author:Neil Gaiman
“There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.” FactsSongEndureTemptationMelodySimplest Author:Ken Hensley
“It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.” ThinkingFactsDesireFallEvilForceViewsQualitySituationSacrificeSpringIdealsPressureEndureAbsenceAriseRealisticDisagreeable Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920 Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920
“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!” MenFactsDesireEvilEnemyCreationHe ManHonorConceptsMarkEndureDeedsNobleEvolveBridgesDistinctionDespiseReverenceContrastAfterthoughtNoble ManPendants Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche