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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event – and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming, but I need solitude: a recovery, a return to myself, a breath of a free, light, playful air.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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The Great Man is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of opinion; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and respectability, and altogether everything that is the virtue of the herd. If he cannot lead, he goes alone. He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar. When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity. And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity—which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile—believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the “hands of God”; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things; we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.

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All art works tonically, increases strength, inflames desire, excites all the more subtle recollections of intoxication—there is a special memory that penetrates such states: a distant and transitory world of sensations here comes back.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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Only the rarest and best-formed come to the highest and most illustrious human joys, in which existence celebrates its own transfiguration.

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Artists should see nothing as it is, but fuller, simpler, stronger: to that end, their lives must contain a kind of youth and spring, a kind of habitual intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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All art exercises the power of suggestion over the muscles and senses, which in the artistic temperament are originally active: it always speaks only to artists.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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The artist gradually comes to love for their own sake the means that reveal a condition of intoxication: extreme subtlety and splendor of color, definiteness of line, nuances of tone: the distinct where otherwise, under normal conditions, distinctness is lacking. All distinct things, all nuances, to the extent that they recall these extreme enhancements of strength that intoxication produces, awaken this feeling of intoxication by association: the effect of works of art is to excite the state that creates art—intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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The moral man is a lower species than the immoral, a weaker species; indeed—he is a type in regard to morality, but not a type in himself; a copy, a good copy at best—the measure of his value lies outside him. I assess a man by the quantum of power and abundance of his will: not by its enfeeblement and extinction; I regard a philosophy which teaches denial of the will as a teaching of defamation and slander— I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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To demand of the artist that he should practice the perspective of the audience (of the critic—) means to demand that he should impoverish himself and his creative power.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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Whoever cannot give, also receives nothing.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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