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"Art raises its head where creeds relax."
45+ Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
A curated collection of 45 inspirational quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Art is the proper task of life."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"Love is blind friendship closes its eyes."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
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"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
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"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
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"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
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"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
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"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
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"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
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"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
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"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
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"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
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"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
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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 one must have one's experiences in common."
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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 one must have one's experiences in common."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service."
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"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."