Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Imitation

• The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Imitation

• Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Nature, Truth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Add, Want

• Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Important, Encounters

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