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
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Art thou a slave? Then thou canst not be a friend. Art thou a tyrant? Then thou canst not have friends.” — 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. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server… — 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
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — 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
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
“... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...” — 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
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — 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
“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
“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
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
