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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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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

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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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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mi...more

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Art is the proper task of life.

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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.