Friedrich Nietzsche: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 16)

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“I have forgotten my umbrella.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health…”

“It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.”

“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”

“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”

“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”

“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”

“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”

“God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.”