Friedrich Nietzsche: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 13)

“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!”

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”