Friedrich Nietzsche: Frases en inglés (página 21)

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.”

“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”

“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.”

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“Every word is a prejudice.”