The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. — 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
“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. — 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
“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
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
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — 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
“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
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The craft, trade, agriculture, science, a large part of the art - all this can only stand on a broad base ,… — 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
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
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
“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
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — 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
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
