Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Struggle

• I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.294, Vintage

• Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Boredom, Vain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.729, Simon and Schuster

• But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Dark, Men

  "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

• Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Struggle, Knowledge

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.169, Vintage

• He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Mean, Men

• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Luxury, Doe

• From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Struggle, Taken

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

• Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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