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Nietzsche est avant tout un bousculeur d’existence et un passeur d’énergie incomparable, un faiseur de joie, celui qui, à l’encontre des nombreux partisans du chant des abîmes, affirme la vie coûte que coûte face à toute tentation nihiliste – « Je ne laisserai jamais personne porter un faux témoignage contre la vie. »
Friedrich Nietzsche • Il faut vivre dangereusement - Une pensée par jour (French Edition)
opposed to the instinctive in any decisive sense; the greater part of the conscious thinking of a philosopher is secretly influenced by his instincts,
Friedrich Nietzsche • Beyond Good and Evil (AmazonClassics Edition)
"Nietzsche’s statement ‘God is dead’ had said the unsayable to an age unwilling to go so far as to acknowledge the obvious: that without belief in the divine there was no longer any moral authority for the laws that had persisted throughout the civilisation built over the last two thousand years." (Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!)
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but love it. —NIETZSCHE
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
And at that time it also happened—and verily, it happened for the first time—that his word pronounced selfishness blessed, the wholesome, healthy selfishness that wells from a powerful soul—from a powerful soul to which belongs the high body, beautiful, triumphant, refreshing, around which everything becomes a mirror —the supple, persuasive body, t
... See moreFriedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
Friedrich Nietzsche, a daring thinker of the late nineteenth century, put it best in his famous aphorism: “Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.” His idea that adversity has a positive value was new.
Phil Stutz • The Tools
