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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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I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

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I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

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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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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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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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Art is the proper task of life.

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.