Friedrich Nietzsche: Frasi in inglese (pagina 18)

“Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.”

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”

“Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.”

“A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.”

“Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.”

“Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.”

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again”

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”

“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

“Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?”

“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”