Also, learn how to stick up for yourself, go after things you want, have some confidence, think positively, and interact productively with other people and you can do fine without having to be a jerk.
The quote, "An idle brain is the devil's workshop," comes from H.G. Bohn's "Handbook of Proverbs", published in 1855. Often, the word "brain" is substituted by the word "mind" and "workshop" is sometimes changed to "playground" in the modern daily use of the expression.
Indeed: Nietzsche wrote “Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens.—Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker,” which can be translated as “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” It appears in his book of aphorisms, Twilight of the Idols, and no further explanation follows.
Nietzsche expands on the idea in his autobiography Ecce Homo. (yep!)
In it he writes about certain individuals as “nature’s lucky strokes…among men,” and says about these people, “They divine remedies for injuries; they knows how to turn serious accidents to their own advantage; that which does not kill them makes them stronger.”
Also, learn how to stick up for yourself, go after things you want, have some confidence, think positively, and interact productively with other people and you can do fine without having to be a jerk.
Nietzsche expands on the idea in his autobiography Ecce Homo. (yep!)
In it he writes about certain individuals as “nature’s lucky strokes…among men,” and says about these people, “They divine remedies for injuries; they knows how to turn serious accidents to their own advantage; that which does not kill them makes them stronger.”