“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?” KnowsMenHas BeensSoulFacesSpiritSufferingGrowthSecretGreatnessDisciplineEndureRuinsGrantedTensionMaskUnhappinessCunningFace To FaceInterpretingProfundityInventivenessEnhancement Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.” EndsFormDeathSecretCrisisMaskTransitionDecayVitalityRegeneration Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin