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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

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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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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life...more

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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

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

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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

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He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.

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

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the s...more

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth ...more