| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42272 |
| QUOTATION: | Out of life’s school of war.—What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 60, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Twilight of the Idols, “Maxims and Arrows,” section 8 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1889).
A somewhat earlier version appearing in the unpublished “Maxims of a Hyperborean” (13:478) reads: “What does not destroy us—we destroy, and it makes us stronger. Il faut tuer le Wagnerisme” (Wagnerism must be destroyed). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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