Friedrich Nietzsche: Citations en anglais

Friedrich Nietzsche était philologue, philosophe et poète allemand. Citations en anglais.
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“The 'Kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart — not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre L'Antéchrist

Sec. 34
The Antichrist (1888)

“Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation and customs.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre The Will to Power

Sec. 144 (Notebook N VII 1. April - June 1885, KGW VII, 3.198, KSA 11.478)
The Will to Power (1888)

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 381
The Gay Science (1882)

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“May I really say it! All truths are bloody truths to me—take a look at my previous writings.”

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Notebooks (Summer 1880) 4[271]

“Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew”

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all Jews become mawkish when they moralize
Sec. 357
The Gay Science (1882)

“New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Le Gai Savoir

Sec. 314
The Gay Science (1882)

“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Le Gai Savoir

The Gay Science (1882), Sec. 14

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre L'Antéchrist

it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
Sec. 34
The Antichrist (1888)

“I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.”

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As quoted in "Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy" in The New York Times (19 December 1987) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D91E3EF93AA25751C1A961948260

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)