"Art is the proper task of life" — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Source: Cato, act 2 (1713)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quote