Friedrich Nietzsche: Idézetek angolul (oldal 19)

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal… an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.”

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write”

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”

“the lie is a condition of life.”

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

“Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.”

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”

“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”

“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

“How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?”

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”