Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Courageous
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• Impulses are hard to come by these days.

  

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• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Weapons
  • Courageous