Friedrich Nietzsche: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 4)

“Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

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

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

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

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

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”