Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil: that the slavish morality of meekness, chastity, selflessness, absolute obedience, has triumphed — ruling natures were thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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