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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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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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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

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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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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but wit...more