Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Art Quotes, Believe Quotes

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

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Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

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