Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais

Friedrich Nietzsche était philologue, philosophe et poète allemand. Citations en anglais.
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“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

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“Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”

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“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

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“How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Maxims and Arrows, 3
Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.”

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Variante: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

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“Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.”

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Source: The Gay Science

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

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Source: The Anti-Christ

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

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“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

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“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

Variante: We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Source: Human, All Too Human

“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”

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