What is the saying by Neitzche...?

Question

It's something like "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Does anyone know the actual quote?

Answer 1

Yep.

"That which does not kill you will only make you stronger."

And here I thought you were going for one of the rare ones, like:

"Battle not with the monsters, lest you become one, and do not stare too long into the darkness of the void, lest the eyes of the void stare back into you, leaving you changed...."

Or something like that. ;) And you do have to be careful with Neitzsche, just because from what little I read about his work, the guy was just absolutely *anal* about his word choice, and making sure he knew what "is" was at any given moment. So yeah, all of us misquoting the crap out of him might be making his dust and bones do nine kinds of ninja backflips clean out of his grave....

(assuming he isn't already out of his grave and playing Tekken 5 down in Mississippi somewhere, you never know, *lol*, I mean that *is* the kind of stuff the guy imagined that the Ubermensch, or the Supermen, on Earth could do....)

Answer 2

I've always liked that quote. It's so inspirational. That is, until I found out that he spent the last years of his life absolutly looney in an insane asylium.

It didn't kill him.

It also didn't make him stronger.

:>

Answer 3

"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."

You basically answered your own question.

EDIT: But note, too, that you will get variation in the exact expression the concept. That's because he said it in German. What you're getting are English translations.

Answer 4

i think you got it. that and "god is dead" are the only ones i know of neitzche's.

Answer 5

“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger”