Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais

Friedrich Nietzsche était philologue, philosophe et poète allemand. Citations en anglais.
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“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

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“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”

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Variante: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

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Source: The Gay Science

“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.”

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“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

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“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

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“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”

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Source: The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner

“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”

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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

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“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh”

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“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

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