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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

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...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

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The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy should begin with him, that the Dionysiac wisdom ...more

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Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value."This unconditional will to truth—what is it? Is i...more

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As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

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No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

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Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...more

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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If you know the why, you can live any how.