Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must sta... -Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche , Philosopher
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes to Explore

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause....
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one rec...
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy....
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly....
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they ...
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?...
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one....
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man....
When one has not had a good father, one must create one....
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...