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Quotation from Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, §8, trans. Anthony M. Ludovici (1911)

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche compresses a theory of hardening through adversity into one aphorism.

Citation: "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, §8, trans. Anthony M. Ludovici (1911). (id twilight-of-the-idols-q1)

Portrait: Götzen-Dämmerung (1889), Author: Friedrich Nietzsche and Publisher: Verlag von C. G. Naumann, Public domain.

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