Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais (Page 22)

Friedrich Nietzsche était philologue, philosophe et poète allemand. Citations en anglais.
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“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865-06-11. Quoted in Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (opening epigram).
Variante: Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Source: Twilight of the Idols

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

... die Hoffnung: sie ist in Wahrheit das übelste der Übel, weil sie die Qual der Menschen verlängert.
I.71
Variante: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

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“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre L'Antéchrist

This has commonly been paraphrased: The last Christian died on the cross.
Sec. 39
The Antichrist (1888)

“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“First principle: one must need to be strong — otherwise one will never become strong. — Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers…”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:
you—are the stone, the desert, are death …”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Dionysian-Dithyrambs

Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)

“There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel: a tattered, painted bag of clothes; a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 128
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - -”

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Preface
Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)

“If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Généalogie de la morale

Essay 2, Section 24
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

“What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them — neither has a pleasant smell.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre L'Antéchrist

Sec. 46
The Antichrist (1888)

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

I.74
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: “Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.””

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Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 127
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty — I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre L'Antéchrist

Sec. 62
The Antichrist (1888)

“Meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities, and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever-changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative, and risky.”

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Attributed to Nietzsche on quotes sites and on social media, the original quotation is from An Introduction to the History of Psychology by B. R. Hergenhahn (2008, page 226) and is the author's summary of Nietzsche's ideas: "The meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experimenting, by living dangerously. Life consists of an almost infinite number of possibilities, and the healthy person (the superman) explores as many of them as possible. Religions or philosophies that teach pity, humility, submissiveness, self-contempt, self-restraint, guilt, or a sense of community are simply incorrect. [...] For Nietzsche, the good life is ever-changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative, and risky."
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“I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate that their weights are underweight; nor do people feel outraged; they merely laugh at your doubts. I mean: the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this "great majority." But what is goodheartedness, refinement, or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distress--as that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.”

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Sec. 2
The Gay Science (1882)