Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais (Page 16)

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches — and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts”

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“I have forgotten my umbrella.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health…”

“It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.”

“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”