Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Block

Disappointment

Views

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Glimpse

Sides

Struggle

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.

Letting Go

Moving Forward

Moving On

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Differences

Fear

Peace

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

Humility

Ignorant

Struggle

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Church

Sports

Thinking

Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight – whiter and purer than snow itself.

Fall

Fighting

Love Is

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

Knows

Men

Want

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Invention

Lines

Retreat

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Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight – whiter and purer than snow itself.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

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