Creative Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

11 Creative quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s musings on the creative spirit come through in eleven terse lines. Expect the usual depth of his philosophy, trimmed to a concise, thought‑provoking set.

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to…

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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance…

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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off…

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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he…

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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a…

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act…

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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"…

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Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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