Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Interpretation
Finding a purpose gives you the strength to endure challenges.
This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche emphasizes the importance of having a purpose or meaning in life. When individuals have a clear reason or motivation for living, they can endure and overcome even the most difficult circumstances, suggesting that our resilience stems from our sense of purpose.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.
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