We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
- Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
- It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
- The lie is a condition of life.
- For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
- Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
- God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
- You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
- Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Best Quotes
- I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
- A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
- Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
- In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.