Friedrich Nietzsche: Idézetek angolul (oldal 5)

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“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?”

“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…”

“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.”

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

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

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“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.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”