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Pain Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
- Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
- One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the…
- This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
- The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
- There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
- 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!
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