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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but wit...more

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

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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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It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We p...more

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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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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...more

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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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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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

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Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.