Friedrich Nietzsche: Idézetek angolul (oldal 12)

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”