It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
In the original German
Nicht die Stärke, sondern die Dauer der hohen Empfindung macht die hohen Menschen.
Beyond Good and Evil · 1886
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 72.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 72.