Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Courage
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This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.
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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.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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