Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Overcoming

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Skills, Overcoming

• Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Men, Bridges

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William Arrowsmith (1990). “Unmodern Observations”, p.164, Yale University Press

• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Growing, Resistance

• The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Overcoming, Would Be

• All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Overcoming, Want

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

• 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

• Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Feelings, Overcoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming, Emotion, Beyond Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.77, Friedrich Nietzsche

• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

• The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Stronger, Overcoming

• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Freedom, Men

• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

• The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Men, Overcoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

• Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming, Life Is, Again And Again

• My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Humanity, Overcoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

• Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Enemy, Overcoming

• Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Overcoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.7, Algora Publishing

• Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming

• What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming, Doe, Demand

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.191, A&C Black

• To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Desire, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

• Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.160, e-artnow

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