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Hardship Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of…
- One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
- There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
- But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?
- Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by…
- Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?
- But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have…
- Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than…
- Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and…
- Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can…
- I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".
- In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
- But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that…
- Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
- The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
- He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.
- But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!
- You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that…
- O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!
- You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.
- Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent…
- It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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- I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it… — Woodrow Wilson