Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Weakness

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

• 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

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Character, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

• There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Weakness

• At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Endure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.101, Vintage

• 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".

• What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Sith

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

• What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Arise

• Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Visions Of The Future, Two

• Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Steps, Belief

• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Age, Use

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

• 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

• Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Waiting, Weakness

• The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Principles, Fellowship

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