9 Posts found for Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who have a why can endure any how.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subject: Education | Scholarship

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Good & Evil, Love

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: History, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subject: Personal Improvement

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Perception | Observation, Thought | Inquiry

“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” This is among life’s most abiding questions and the history of human creativity — our art and our poetry and most empathically all of our philosophy — is the history of attempts to answer it.

There is no drearier, sorrier creature in nature than the man who has evaded his own

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Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (September 30, 2015) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Philosophy