Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Growth
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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