Quotes About Challenge

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Alas, the magic of these battles is that whoever looks at them must also fight them.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God.

the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Was that - life? I will say to death. Very well! Once more!

That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!

I found life easy, easiest, when it demanded the most difficult things of me.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.

Îns? în ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe "prietenii cei buni", mereu prea comozi ÅŸi care, tocmai ca prieteni, îÅŸi închipuie c? au dreptul la comoditate, faci bine dac? le avansezi un loc de joac?, o aren? a nepriceperii lor: vei avea astfel pricin? de râs; - sau s?-i înl?turi cu totul pe aceÅŸti prieteni buni, - ÅŸi iar s? râzi!

of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.

One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

For ten years you have climbed here to my cave: you would have become weary of shining and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle, and my serpent.

I love the great despisers. Man, however, is something that must be overcome.

I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!