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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The discipline of suffering, of GREAT suffering--know ye not that it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part Seven, §225, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Against hedonism, utilitarianism and the religion of pity, Nietzsche defends suffering as formative.
Citation: "The discipline of suffering, of GREAT suffering--know ye not that it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Seven, §225, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q13)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
