Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Courage

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Heart, Needs

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Courage, Time

• You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Flames, Rejuvenation

• The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Bravery, Late

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Bravery, Brave

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.238, Penguin

• He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Consideration, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.165, Penguin

• Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Knows

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

• Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Art, Philosophy

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Truth, Integrity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

• It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Indulge In, Wickedness

• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

• Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, People, Brave

• The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Hero, Eye

• I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Said, Admire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.272, Vintage

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