Friedrich Nietzsche: Idézetek angolul (oldal 20)

“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.”

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.”

“One has to know the size of one's stomach.”

“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.”