Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais (Page 3)
Friedrich Nietzsche était philologue, philosophe et poète allemand. Citations en anglais.“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”
Sec. 179
The Gay Science (1882)
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Variante: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“What does man actually know about himself?”
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Contexte: What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.
“We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement”
Sec. 120 (Spring-Fall 1887)
The Will to Power (1888)
Contexte: More natural is our position in politics: We see problems of power, of one quantum of power against another. We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement: we feel all rights to be conquests.
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
Variante: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”
Variante: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Source: Human, All Too Human
Sec. 144 (Notebook N VII 1. April - June 1885, KGW VII, 3.198, KSA 11.478)
The Will to Power (1888)
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation