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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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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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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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Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steal...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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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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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.

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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.

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[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.