Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Growth

• 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 dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Patience, Wisdom, Growth

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

• Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Growth, Survival

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

• Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roots, Growth, Weak

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

• Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Growth, Decline

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