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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Healing, Saving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.60, Modern Library

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Believe, Men

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Weakness, Endure
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.101, Vintage

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, War, Health
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.57, Friedrich Nietzsche

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mind, Wish, Needs

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Example, Add, Want

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, Growing, Resistance

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Men, Play

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Is, Medicine, Cures

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love You, Heart, Ashamed
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Sensual, Triumph
Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Oxford University Press

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting, Victory, Advise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Vanity, Sight

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Fighting, Boredom
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.152, Algora Publishing

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Years, Two, Political

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate, Enemy, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.337, Penguin UK

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Mean, Men

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage, Modern, Lost

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Motivational, Art
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Morning, Growing Up
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice, Judging, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Thinking, Plight

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Individuality, Individual Morality
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Privilege, Intense
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Men, Justice
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.96, Algora Publishing

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