We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Friedrich NietzscheI feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
Friedrich NietzscheWe praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Friedrich NietzscheWithout art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
Friedrich NietzscheFrom the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
Friedrich Nietzsche