Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais (Page 14)

“Success has always been a great liar”

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“Woman was God’s second mistake.”

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things, then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”

“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”