Life is that which must overcome itself again and again
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.