The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where we encounter the "naïve" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How Rhythm Beautifies.- Rhythm casts a veil over reality; it causes various artificiality’s of speech and obscurities of thought; by the shadow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I should like to direct the attention of artists. A constant producer, a man who is a "mother" in the grand sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
