Фридрих Ницше: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 15)

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

“I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers…”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.”

“Convictions are prisons.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

“Some are born posthumously.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”

“.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.”

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

“No artist tolerates reality.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”