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
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — 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
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
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — 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
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world… — 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
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
“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — 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
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
“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — 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
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
“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
