Фридрих Ницше: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 19)

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”

“My genius is in my nostrils.”

“Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.”

“He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.”

“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

“And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.”

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal… an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.”

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write”

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”

“the lie is a condition of life.”

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”