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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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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...more

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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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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[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

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Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding...more