Friedrich Nietzsche: Idézetek angolul (oldal 20)

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

“Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.”

“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.”

“Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”

“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.”

“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.”

“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”