Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - On the mountains of truth you...

Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Translation

(German, French)

Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Tu ne grimperas jamais en vain dans les montagnes de la vérité : soit qu’aujourd’hui déjà tu parviennes à monter plus haut, soit que tu exerces tes forces pour pouvoir monter plus haut demain.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotes about strength:

I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.”
René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth

Consciousness of our powers augments them.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

strength

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Theodor W. Adorno

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth -
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained, the old emotion,
The bliss that touched the verge of pain,
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, -
O, give me back my youth again!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols

strength

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Quotes for: truth:

Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
André Gide

The language of truth is simple.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Gustav Jung

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Become who you are!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

to be

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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