Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Das Leben nach der Höhe zu wird immer härter, - die Kälte nimmt zu, die Verantwortlichkeit nimmt zu.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist

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Achieving great things Adversity

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

The Antichrist

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 57.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 57.

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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

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Time
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Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

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Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

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It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

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Anthony Trollope
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Exploration Adventure

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter. 3 Nov. 1812.

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Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Source
The Drunken Boat
Medium
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
1871 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.