Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — 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
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a… — 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
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — 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
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Când Dumnezeu şi-a-ntors privirea de la sine — atunci a creat lumea.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God?—Then,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go… — 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
