Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais (Page 10)

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”

“… throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”

“From experience. That something is irrational is no argument against its existence, but rather a condition for it.”

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

“Only sick music makes money today.”

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”

“Live dangerously.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”