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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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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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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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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

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To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering ...more

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

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The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...more