Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death selected voluntarily, death at the right time, consummated with brightness and cheerfulness in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible where he is yet present who takes his leave.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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No one who has stood for high values—love, truth, justice—has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.

—Parker J. Palmer

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The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour!

—Richard Kehl

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

—Charles M. Schulz

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

—Rhonda Byrne in The Secret

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