Friedrich Nietzsche: Frases em inglês

Friedrich Nietzsche era filósofo alemão do século XIX. Frases em inglês.
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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Assim Falou Zaratustra

Variante: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Fonte: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Assim Falou Zaratustra

Fonte: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Humano, Demasiado Humano

I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q="we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed"&pg=PA137#v=onepage
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”

Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Assim Falou Zaratustra

Fonte: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

Variante: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Para Além do Bem e do Mal

Variante: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Fonte: Beyond Good and Evil

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Assim Falou Zaratustra

Fonte: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livro Ecce homo

… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)