#friedrich nietzsche
Une belle femme a tout de même quelque chose de commun avec la vérité : toutes deux donnent plus de bonheur lorsqu'on les désire que lorsqu'on les possède.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Independence is for the very few. It is a privilege of the strong.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §29 (excerpt).
“What is most difficult to render from one language into another is the tempo of its style, which has its basis in the character of the race.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §28 (excerpt).
“It is hard to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives as the current of the Ganges moves.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §27 (excerpt).
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §26 (excerpt).
“Choose the free and playful solitude that gives you the right to remain good in some sense.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §25 (edited excerpt).
“Even if language will not get over its awkwardness and continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees of gradation, we will understand it and laugh at the way in which science seeks most to keep us in this simplified, thoroughly artificial, suitably constructed and suitably falsified world.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §24 (edited excerpt).
“All psychology so far has got stuck in moral prejudices and fears. It has not dared to descend into the depths.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §23 (excerpt).
“Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §22 (excerpt).
“Thecausa sui is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far. It is a sort of rape and perversion of logic, but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §21 (excerpt).
“The spell of certain grammatical functions is ultimately also the spell of physiological valuations and racial conditions.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §20 (excerpt).
“A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §19 (excerpt).
“We really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §16 (excerpt).
“To study physiology with a clear conscience, one must insist that the sense organs are not phenomena in the sense of idealistic philosophy.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §15 (excerpt).
“The noble charm of the Platonic way of thinking consisted precisely in its resistance to obvious sense-evidence.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §14 (edited excerpt).
“Life itself is will to power. Self preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §13 (excerpt).
“When the new psychologist puts an end to the superstitions which have so far flourished with almost tropical luxuriance around the idea of the soul, he practically exiles himself into a new desert and a new suspicion. It is possible that the older psychologists had a merrier and more comfortable time.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §12 (edited excerpt).
“Synthetic judgements a priori should not be possible at all, as we have no right to them, and in our mouths they are nothing but false judgements. Only the belief in their truth is necessary, as a foreground belief and visual evidence belonging to the perspective optics of life.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §11 (edited excerpt).
“As soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. Thus, philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §9 (edited excerpt).
“Epicurus called Plato and all of his followers ‘actors,’ because there was ‘nothing genuine about them.’”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §7 (edited excerpt).
