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75 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. 1. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 2. "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving ...
What does not kill me makes me stronger (German: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the "Maxims and Arrows" section of Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888). It is quoted or alluded to by many other works, with minor variants in wording.
More precisely, he does not believe that one should refute the senses, as Plato did. [9] This goes against Nietzsche's ideals of human excellence in that it is a symptom of personal decadence. [10] By decadence, Nietzsche is referring to a fading of life, and vitality and an embrace of weakness.
[187] [188] As such, according to Nietzsche, the drive for conservation appears as the major motivator of human or animal behaviour only in exceptions, as the general condition of life is not one of a 'struggle for existence.' [189] More often than not, self-conservation is a consequence of a creature's will to exert its strength on the outside ...
Peter Gast would "correct" Nietzsche's writings even after the philosopher's breakdown and would do so without his approval – something heavily criticized by today's Nietzsche scholarship. Within this work, Nietzsche is self-consciously striving to present a new image of the philosopher and of himself, for example, a philosopher "who is not ...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche; it was published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885.
Derrida not only fostered Nietzsche's work but evolved it within the sphere of language; in doing so, he acquired and employs Nietzsche's optimism in his conception of the 'play' of language - that is inherent in language - as being far more than just "the substitution of given and existing, present, pieces". [7]
According to Salomé, history in this writing also stands for the life of thought in general, and according to Nietzsche, this must serve the life of instinct. In this demand and the remarks on "plastic power" (HL, chapter 1), she recognizes an early form of what Nietzsche later called the "Dionysian".