"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...
Art is the proper task of life.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
"If you know the why, you can live any how.
"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.
"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life...
"What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
"[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
"We have art in order not to die of the truth.
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth ...
"If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be fo...