I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
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 mind.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
By : Friedrich Nietzsche