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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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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then ...more

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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

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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of...more