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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Suffering, Cost

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Pleasure, Said

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Creativity, Hens
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.246, Penguin

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Suffering, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Ethics, Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.62, Courier Corporation

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Cynical, Causes

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hurt, Pain, Different
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.392, Cambridge University Press

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Pain, Fall

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Men, Weather

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Long, Promise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.77, 谷月社

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Teacher, Pain, Doubt

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Discipline, Humanity

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Men, Suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.170, Courier Corporation

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Suffering, What If
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Dust, Tree
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheist, Pain, Struggle
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.294, Vintage

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, People, Suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Failure, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.360, Friedrich Nietzsche

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, People, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Taken, Pride

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Pain, Profound
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.553, Modern Library

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dog, Pain, Names
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.249, Vintage

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Suffering

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