The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Moralising tendencies may be combated with art. Art is freedom from moral bigotry and philosophy _à la_ Little Jack Horner: or it may be the mockery of these things. The flight to Nature, where beauty and terribleness are coupled. The concept of the great man. --Fragile, useless souls-de-luxe, which are disconcerted by a mere breath of wind, "beautiful souls." --Ancient ideals, in their inexorable hardness and brutality, ought to be awakened, as the mightiest of monsters that they are. --We should feel a boisterous delight in the psychological perception of how all moralised artists become worms and actors without knowing it. --The falsity of art, its immorality, must be brought into the light of day. --The "fundamental idealising powers" (sensuality, intoxication, excessive animality) should be brought to light.
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