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Beautiful Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage…
- Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
- It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don…
- In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world…
- Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect…
- A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.
- Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
- The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
- Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant…
- Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
- After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself:…
- The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type…
- The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its…
- I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things…
- There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
- Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast…
- The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
- The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
- This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
- I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make…
- No artist tolerates reality.
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman