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

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

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Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately on...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 more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.