What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

In the original German

Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.

Twilight of the Idols · 1889
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Provenance
Current citation
Nietzsche, Frederick. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer]. 1889.