"To experience a thing as beautiful means:..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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“In the end one only experiences oneself.”
“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.”
“The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.”
More on Beauty
“The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.”
“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”
“The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.”
More on Perception
“Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?”
“Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.”
“Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.”