Quotes from famous people
“The body is the least of what a woman can give a man” R. Rolland
“Why should we hate each other? We are all together, carried away by the same planet, we are the crew of one ship." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them the plaything of your mood.” A.P. Chekhov
“You may be just a person in this world, but for someone you are the whole world.” Gabriel García Márquez
“The best remedy for resentment is forgiveness” Seneca
“A person is a product of his own thoughts. What he thinks is what he becomes.” Maha Brian Tracy
“You are controlled by those who make you angry” - Lao Tzu
“The city has no time for people. There are no people, there are functions: the postman, the salesman, the neighbor who gets in the way... you value a person in the desert." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The only certainties in this world are death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin
“Don't imitate others. Find yourself and be yourself" Dale Carnegie
“The whole secret to success in public speaking is to talk to people, not to perform in front of them!” Radislav Gandapas
“The most important thing in women's clothing is the woman who wears it” Yves Saint Laurent
Who said: “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger?” Meaning
The author of the catchphrase was the highly controversial thinker Friedrich Nietzsche. The quote is understood in different meanings, but the essence of the interpretation is the same: only by overcoming significant difficulties, and even troubles, and experiencing grief, will a person become a truly spiritually strong person.
The phrase, however, was taken out of context. Nietzsche did not want to put a romantic, motivational meaning into it and somehow urge his followers not to be afraid of life’s adversities. These words are connected with his doctrine of the superman.
Is Nietzsche wrong?
Not everyone echoes the author “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Here's how people explain their disagreement with the quote:
- “The more difficulties a person experiences, the more indifferent and callous he becomes. But is it stronger?
- “When a person encounters something that can kill him, spiritually or physically, he needs to become cruel in order to defeat it, not to allow himself to be overcome. So it’s more correct to say: what doesn’t kill us makes us cruel.”
- “Not all the difficulties and troubles that a person encounters will necessarily make him strong. Something will deprive him of faith in people, kindness, gullibility, faith in a happy future. And some difficulties can actually drive you crazy.”
- “Constantly repeating troubles lead to neuroses, fears, depression, phobias. They make a person more embittered, more desperate, but hardly stronger.”
- “The phrase applies only to mental trials. A person will not be made stronger by a cancerous tumor that he managed to overcome, or by a serious injury that crippled his health but did not kill him.”
- “From this phrase it follows that everyone will someday encounter a test that they cannot cope with, and it will kill them. Not a very optimistic quote."
Superman Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche devoted a lot of time to exploring the limits of human capabilities. And he believed that it was the superman who could go beyond these boundaries to become who he is. Let us note that Nietzsche characterized superhumans with a rather large list of qualities, where going beyond the limits of emotional forces was just one of the points.
You can learn more about this topic by reading the work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” Superman (Übermensch) in Nietzsche is the image with which he denoted a being who will surpass modern people in spiritual power as much as we surpass monkeys. According to the scientist's hypothesis, Übermensch is the next evolutionary step that will follow man.
However, F. Nietzsche noted that superhumans are already among us, moreover, they were born a long time ago. He included Julius Caesar, C. Borgia, and Napoleon into this category.
Quotes from wise women
“It’s easier to control drunk people!” Catherine II
“You need just enough money so as not to feel humiliated” Alla Pugacheva
“If each of us had to kill with our own hands an animal that would be eaten, then millions would become vegetarians!” Brigitte Bardot
“My only mistake: for three quarters of my life I thought that everything was still ahead” Alisa Freindlich
“People who don’t feel love for themselves usually don’t know how to forgive.” Louise Hay
“Minimum cosmetics. Invest in skin and health, not in decorative coloring” Irina Khakamada
“I don’t recognize the word “play.” You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage" Faina Ranevskaya
“Waiting for gratitude is stupid, but being ungrateful is vile” Larisa Guzeeva
Ideologies make life easier for some. Like a mild laxative.
Life is about quick food and long work.
The most serious illnesses come from the easiest life. Valery Afonchenko
The School of Life certificate is issued after Death. Vladimir Borisov
Life is a journey from nowhere to nowhere. Anatoly Rakhmatov
In the theater of life, the inner voice acts as a prompter, but sometimes it can mix up the pages. Yuri Tatarkin
The Enchanted Circle of Life: “In search of the slightest freedom for oneself, someone else’s excess is always on the way.” Leonid S. Sukhorukov
A wife is not a mistress, but a friend and companion of our life, and we must get used to the idea of loving her even when she is an elderly woman. V.G. Belitsky
Cool Quotes
Respect your parents. They graduated from school without Google or Wikipedia.
My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money
Still, we live in a unique country. We have "Rainbow" - a black and white TV, "Tenderness" - handcuffs, "Friendship" - a chainsaw, "Cheremukha" - tear gas, and "Mir" - ballistic intercontinental missiles.
If you name the folder “Shmoys”, and then right-click and open the properties, it will say Shmoy Properties.
Marriage is a struggle: first for unity, then for equality, and then for independence... And so on - until death do you part.
To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads. (Albert Einstein)
Horses are not changed at the crossing, but donkeys can and should be changed
Citizens are like children to the state! It comes up with games for them, tells them fairy tales, feeds them with sweet promises...
Getting old is unpleasant, but it is the only way to live long.
Cats have an amazing ability: even in the hallway, in front of the front door, with their head on dirty sneakers and their butt on a fallen shoe brush, this sybarite manages to lie with such a contented look that you want to lie down next to him and get high for an hour.
If elections in Russia decided anything, they would have been canceled long ago...
Psychologist's advice. If you get nervous, open your wallet and slowly, bill by bill, count one hundred thousand dollars. It's calming.
Youth comes only once. Then other excuses are required.
Each accident has a last name, first name, patronymic.
Greeting card “Thank you for the socks for February 23, dear” - 25 rubles with a MasterCard card, an Apple sticker - 35 rubles with a MasterCard card, a plastic phone for children - 100 rubles with a MasterCard card, the expression on this bitch’s face after unpacking the “present” is priceless
“Do you have nothing against it or are you against it because you have nothing?”
Nothing holds back a hot woman except a strong drink. — Cool quotes
Best Quotes
“It’s not a shame to be poor, it’s a shame to be cheap”
“Only three kinds of people will tell you the truth: children, drunk people and angry people.”
“Who are we not to forgive each other’s offenses, even if God forgives us our sins”
“Someday later” is a most dangerous disease that will sooner or later bury your dreams along with you...”
“If you think that the Universe sits and invents problems and illnesses for you, then you have delusions of grandeur. She simply realizes your thoughts"
“You cannot beat small children and defenseless animals! They can't do the same to you."
“Every person has virtues for which it is worth forgiving shortcomings”
“You should not drink for the health of your parents, but pray for them”
"Jealousy is the recognition that someone is better than you"
“What is our destiny if not the manifestation of our will and reason among the inert mass of circumstances that life presents to us?”
“Today is the best day of my life, because... Yesterday has already passed, and tomorrow has not yet come!
“Life consists 10% of what happens to us, and 90% of how we react to it..”
“Use the balloon rule: throw out everything you don’t need to gain height.”
“You need to live in such a way that everyone who communicates with you later regrets that you are not around”
“Man today is the product of many millions of generations since the creation of the world. Don't try to change it. Accept it as it is!”
“In addition to love and respect for loved ones, you need to have a sense of tact not to cross the line of their personal space”
“Love who you sleep with if you can’t sleep with who you love.”
"Time is money"? No! Time is more valuable than any money!
“You need to be better than yesterday, not better than others”
“There’s no time now. There will be no strength tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow we will not be there. Don't put anything off. Live here and now! »
“Do good! Or at least don't be mean."
“Remember us, for we also lived, loved and laughed...” (about the dead)
about the author
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, thinker, philologist, poet, and composer. In addition, he is known to the world as the creator of an original philosophical movement.
If we look at the leitmotif of Nietzsche’s works, we will note his new criteria for assessing the entire surrounding reality. He questioned all the principles and forms of morality, culture, art, and social relations existing in his era.
His most famous works are “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Twilight of the Idols”, “Antichrist”, Ecce Homo.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger?
The authority of Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as the words of his authorship, are so convincing that many take what he said on faith. And they continue to live by the principle: the more difficulties I go through, the stronger I will be as a person. But is it?
Surely you will be interested in an interesting study conducted by a team of scientists from the University of California (USA) led by S. Charles. Experts, of course, did not try to check exactly the relevance of the brilliant phrase “What does not kill us makes us stronger,” but decided to prove the fact that negative experience does not lead to good consequences.
In 1995, psychologist D. Almeida (USA, Pennsylvania) conducted an extensive survey in which 1,483 respondents of different ages, men and women, took part. They were asked to rate on a 5-point scale (from “never” to “always”) how often over the past month they experienced negative states: they felt unhappy, useless, nervous. People also had to note how many times they felt depressed, the feeling that nothing was working out, that the whole world was against them.
In another part of the test, the respondent noted whether he was stressed the day before participating in the survey. The last part of the questionnaire included questions about whether the participant had ever been treated for emotional disorders, prolonged depression, etc.
Ten years later, D. Almeida again tried to contact the respondents. However, some were no longer alive by that time, and some did not want to take the survey again. As a result, 711 people passed the second test. The questions in the questionnaire were the same.
A group of scientists led by S. Charles analyzed the results of D. Almeida's research. What this activity showed fundamentally negated the phrase “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger!” It turns out that the more often a person ten years ago felt unwanted, abandoned, useless, fell into depression and was in stressful situations, the more likely it is that he currently has a serious mental disorder.
Of course, this tendency is individual. Some people are strengthened by difficulties, while others are destroyed morally. But one cannot deny the fact that life’s troubles, weak or strong, can not only strengthen the psyche, but also greatly weaken it. Therefore, Nietzsche’s phrase “What does not kill us makes us stronger” is not relevant for everyone.
