Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 8

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

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

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

If you know the why, you can live any how.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Тяжело бремя жизни": не прикидывайтесь такими неженками! Все мы выносливы, как вьючьны%

Some men are born posthumously.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything- makes one gentle and pliable.

Every past is worth condemning.

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...