"We can destroy only as creators..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
We can destroy only as creators
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”
“A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.”
More on Creation
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”
“Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.”
“I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.”
More on Destruction
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”