"Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
If you know the why, you can live any how.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
"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...
"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.
"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
"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.
"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
"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 ...
"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...
"No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of ap...
"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.
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
"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.