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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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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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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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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will g...more

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...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.