When Nietzsche Wept Quotes

“He is civilized, polite, a man of manners. He has tamed his wild nature, turned his wolf into a spaniel. And he calls this moderation. Its real name is mediocrity!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators.” It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future—as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Lucretius’ maxim: ‘Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“insanın bütün eylemleri kendisine yöneliktir, bütün hizmetleri kendine hizmettir, bütün sevgisi kendini sevmesindendir.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Mormintele mă linişteau cumva, îmi permiteau să banalizez banalul din viaţa mea.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity; it is the skin of the soul.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Si indrazneala cu care Nietzsche rostea lucrurile! Incredibil! Sa spui ca speranta e cel mai mare rau! Ca Dumnezeu a murit! Ca adevarul este o greseala fara de care nu putem trai! Ca dusmanii adevarului nu sunt minciunile, ci convingerile! Ca rasplata ultima a celui mort este ca nu va mai muri! Ca medicii nu au nici un drept sa deposedeze un om de moartea sa! Ganduri malefice! Il contrazisese pe Nietzsche la fiecare dintre ele. Si totusi, era o falsa polemica: in adancul inimii, el stia ca Nietzsche are dreptate.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange.”
― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Who can comprehend my torment, my sleepless nights, my flirtation with suicide? After all, haven’t I everything one could wish: money, friends, family, a beautiful and charming wife, renown, respectability? Who will comfort me? Who refrain from asking the obvious question: “What more can you want?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“If you kill God, you must also leave the shelter of the temple.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“مرت فترة في حياتنا اقترب فيها أحدنا كثيرا من الأخر ولم يعد هناك شئ يعيق صداقتنا وإخوّتنا، ولم يكن يفصلنا إلا جسر مشاة صغير. عندما كنت على وشك تطأ بقدمك على الجسر سألتك "هل تريد ان تعبر جسر المُشاة نحوي" فجأة لم تعد ترغب في ذلك، وعندما سألتك ثانيا لذت بالصمت. منذ ذلك الحين أُلقيت بيننا جبال وأنهار غزيرة وأي شئ يمكنه أن يفصل بيننا ويبعد أحدنا عن الأخر، وحتى إذا رغبنا في ان نلتقي، لم نستطع ذلك. لكن عندما تفكر الان بجسر المشاة الصغير ذاك ، لا يمكن التعبير عن ذلك بكلمات ، وانت تنشج وتدهش”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“عندما كان على وشك المغادرة اليوم، سألته، ماذا سيرى إذا لم تكن تعميه التوافه. هكذا أشرت إلى الطريق. هل سيسلكها؟”
― إرفين د. يالوم, When Nietzsche Wept

“​كلما كانت التربة أغنى، فإن عدم زراعتها أمر لا يغتفر.”
― إرفين د. يالوم, When Nietzsche Wept

“To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.”
― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Derin bir adamın dosta ihtiyacı vardır, dostu yoksa bile hiç olmazsa tanrıları vardır. Ama benim ne dostum ne de tanrılarım var. Ben de sizin gibi büyük bir özlem içindeyim; kusursuz dostluklar kurma özlemi, inter pares dostluk, eşitler arasında dostluk. Bu sözcüklerin insanın soluğunu kesen bir gücü var; hele benim gibi her zaman yalnız olan ve hep tam kendisine göre birine arayıp da asla bulamayan biri için inter pares gibi sözcükler büyük bir rahatlama hissi ve ümit veriyor.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“She may have played her role, but you, what role did you play? Were you, and I, so different from her? Did you see her? Or did you, instead, see only prey--a disciple, a plowland for your thoughts, a successor? Or perhaps, like me, you saw beauty, youth a satin pillow, a vessel into which to drain your lust.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Tanrıyı öldürürseniz, onun tapınağına sığınmaktan da vazgeçmek, orayı terk etmek zorundasınız!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“مُت في الوقت المناسب "
" عش عندما تعيش، إن الموت يفقد رعبه إذا مات المرء بعد أن يكون قد عاش حياته بالكامل، أما اذا لم يعش المرء في الزمن الملائم عندها لا يستطيع ان يموت في الوقت المناسب! "
كم من الأشخاص الذين لم يعيشوا حياتهم، بل حياتهم عاشت بهم.. لم يختاروا مايريدون ومايصبحون، واصبح كل منهم ضحية للحياة التي تضج بداخله، محبوسة في عقله اللاواعي، مشكّلة هواجس دون القدرة على تحقيقها، " إن الجشع على الوقت أبدي، الوقت يلتهم ويلتهم ولا يعيد شيئا”
― إرفين د. يالوم, When Nietzsche Wept

“Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“viata este un examen fara nici un raspuns corect”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Ümit kötülüklerin en kötüsüdür, çünkü işkenceyi uzatır.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Ο Μπρόιερ προσπάθησε να αποτινάξει το θάνατο απ' το μυαλό του. Μουρμούρισε το αγαπημένο του ξόρκι, τη φράση του Λουκρητίου: «Όπου είναι ο θάνατος, εγώ δεν είμαι. Όπου είμαι εγώ, ο θάνατος δεν είναι. Γιατί ν' ανησυχώ;» Αλλ' αυτό δεν βοήθησε.
Τίναξε το κεφάλι του, προσπαθώντας να διώξει αυτές τις μακάβριες σκέψεις. Από που του είχαν έρθει; Απ' την κουβέντα για το θάνατο που έκανε με τον Νίτσε; Όχι, μάλλον δεν του τις έβαλε ο Νίτσε στο μυαλό, απλώς τις απελευθέρωσε. Πάντα ήταν εκεί. Όλες τις είχε ξανασκεφτεί. Σε ποια περιοχή του μυαλού του όμως κατοικούσαν, όταν δεν τις σκεφτόταν; Ο Φρόυντ είχε δίκιο: πρέπει να υπάρχει μια δεξαμενή σύνθετων σκέψεων στον εγκέφαλο, πέρα απ' τη συνείδηση, αλλά σε ετοιμότητα, έτοιμες οποιαδήποτε στιγμή να κληθούν να παρελάσουν στη σκηνή της συνειδητότητας.
Και σ' αυτή τη μη συνειδητή δεξαμενή, δεν θα υπάρχουν μόνο σκέψεις, αλλά και συναισθήματα! Πριν λίγες μέρες, μέσ' απ' το αμάξι του, ο Μπρόιερ κοίταξε το διπλανό αμάξι. Τα δυό του άλογα τριπόδιζαν τραβώντας πίσω τους την καρότσα, που μέσα της κάθονταν δυο επιβάτες, ένα σκυθρωπό ηλικιωμένο ζευγάρι. Όμως δεν υπήρχε αμαξάς. Ένα αμάξι φάντασμα! Ο τρόμος τον τύφλωσε, κι είχε μια στιγμιαία εφίδρωση: τα ρούχα του μέσα σε δευτερόλεπτα έγιναν μούσκεμα. Κι έπειτα φάνηκε ο οδηγός του αμαξιού: είχε απλώς σκύψει για να δέσει την μπότα του.
Στην αρχή ο Μπρόιερ είχε γελάσει με την ανόητη αντίδρασή του. Αλλά όσο περισσότερο τη σκεφτόταν, τόσο συνειδητοποιούσε ότι, όσο ορθολογιστής κι ελεύθερος διανοητής κι αν ήταν, στο μυαλό του όμως κρύβονταν φωλιές υπερφυσικού τρόμου. Κι όχι πολύ βαθιά: «εφημέρευαν», βρίσκονταν δευτερόλεπτα μακριά απ' την επιφάνεια. Α, να υπήρχε μια λαβίδα να ξεριζώσει αυτές τις φωλιές, σαν τις αμυγδαλές!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Sekcirajte dublje svoje motive. Naći ćete da niko nikada nije učinio ništa uzvišeno za drugoga. Svi postupci su usmjereni ka sebi, sve usluge sebi, sva ljubav je ljubav prema sebi. Izgledate iznenađeni ovim komentarom? Možda imate na umu one koje volite. Zaronite dublje i shvatićete da ne volite njih: ono što volite su prijatni osjećaji koje takva ljubav stvara u vama!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“You said that life is long and patients often have long careers in treatment. You said they may learn something from one doctor, carry it inside their heads, and, sometime in the future, be ready to do more. And that meanwhile you had played the role she was ready for.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Sometimes I gaze so far into life that I suddenly look around and see that no one has accompanied me, and that my sole companion is time.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“All serious thinkers contemplate suicide,” Nietzsche noted. “It’s a comfort that helps us get through the night.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Sensuality is a bitch that nips at our heels! And how nicely this bitch knows how to beg for a piece of spirit when denied a piece of meat.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Living safely is dangerous.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“My friend,” he whispered, “I cannot tell you how to live differently because, if I did, you would still be living another’s design.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept