Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Style
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
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