After All, What Would Be "beautiful" If

While Every Noble Morality Develops From A Triumphant Affirmation Of Itself, Slave Morality From The Outset Says No To What Is "outside," What Is "different," What Is "not Itself"; And This No Is Its Creative Deed.

And This Do I Call Immaculate Perception Of All Things: To Want Nothing Else From Them, But To Be Allowed To Lie Before Them As A Mirror With A Hundred Facets.

Even The Most Honest Writer Lets Slip A Word Too Many When He Wants To Round Off A Period.

If Ye Would Go Up High, Then Use Your Own Legs! Do Not Get Yourselves Carried Aloft; Do Not Seat Yourselves On Other People's Backs And Heads!

Very Early In My Life I Took The Question Of The Relation Of Art To Truth Seriously: Even Now I Stand In Holy Dread In The Face Of This Discordance. My First Book Was Devoted To It. The Birth Of Tragedy Believes In Art On The Background Of Another Belief