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

Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 41
The Gay Science (1882)

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 381
The Gay Science (1882)

“Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation and customs.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power

Sec. 144 (Notebook N VII 1. April - June 1885, KGW VII, 3.198, KSA 11.478)
The Will to Power (1888)

“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Variant: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Source: Human, All Too Human