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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: To a Friend of Light If you...


Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist whose work deeply influenced modern thought.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

To a Friend of Light
If you want to spare your eyes and your mind,
follow the sun from the shadows behind.




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
À un ami de la lumière
Si tu ne veux pas user ton oeil et tes sens,
Reste dans l'ombre pour poursuivre le soleil !


German
An einen Lichtfreund
Willst du nicht Aug und Sinn ermatten,
Lauf auch der Sonne nach im Schatten!





See also 

See also...



Hide your life and spread your spirit.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.

Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.




Quotes for: shadow


Quotes

Quotes for: shadow


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





Even a single hair casts a shadow.





Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.





The word is the shadow of the deed.





Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.











Quotes for: light


Quotes

Quotes about light:


All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





To love beauty is to see light.





Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.











Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


The sun is new each day.





It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun






The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.











Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.











Quotes

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...




Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Become who you are!





We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.












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