Friedrich Nietzsche: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.”

“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

“But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness.”

“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests.”

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”