Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Self help

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  1. The man who is guided by concepts and abstractions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from these abstractions. And while he aims for the greatest possible freedom from pain, the intuitive man, standing in the midst of a culture, already reaps from his intuition a harvest of continually inflowing illumination, cheer, and redemption - in addition to obtaining a defense against misfortune. To be sure, he suffers more intensely, when he suffers; he even suffers more frequently, since he does not understand how to learn from experience and keeps falling over and over again into the same ditch.

  2. For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

  3. Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'

  4. What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

  5. Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker.

  6. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  7. was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn starker

  8. Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

  9. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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