"Who can attain to anything great if..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.”
“One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.”
“One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!”
More on Greatness
“The great man is always the man of mighty effort.”
“It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.”
“He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.”
More on Will
“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”
“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”
“Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.”