Chapter 87 The Attempt to Revaluate All Values ​​The Will to Power Section 19

the will to power attempt to revaluate all values Section 19 <818> One is an artist because one thinks that everything that is not what an artist calls "form" is content, "the thing itself."In this way, of course, one belongs to an upside-down world.For, to a man, content is now a mere matter of form—our life included. <853> skills. one. One occasionally learns from the background of the book's writing that the writing scheme is depression.Of the previously known types of pessimism, none seems so sinister.Here, the opposition between the real world and the apparent world disappears, because there is only one world, which is false, cruel, contradictory, seductive, meaningless... The world with such characteristics is the real world .In order to achieve victory through this reality and "truth", we cannot do without lies, because it is for the purpose of survival ... lies are needed for the purpose of survival, which also belongs to the horror of life and suspect the extent of this character.

Metaphysics, morality, religion, science—this book considers these things to be just different forms of lies by which life can be believed. "Life deserves faith": such a task is too large.To solve this task, man must be a liar by nature, above all other artists.And that's how people are.Because metaphysics, religion, morality, science—all of these are just man's will to art, to lie, to fear "truth", and to deny "truth", it is a monster.Talent itself rapes reality by deceit only because of this monster.This monster is man's true artistic talent--to which man and all existing things possess.Man himself is indeed a part of reality, truth, and nature.Man, isn't he part of the lying genius!

It has been said that the character of life is to be denied—a secret intention behind morality, science, piety, and artistry.I overlooked a lot of things, misread a lot of things, and looked at the flowers on horseback.what!There are still thousands of miles away from being smart, how smart people are!Love, fanaticism, "God" - purely true, gentle self-deception, pure temptation to life, pure faith in life!The moments when people are victims, the moments when people deceive themselves, the moments when people believe in life.what!How bloated life seems among men!What joy!What a sense of power!How much the artist's triumph lies in the sense of power! ...Man has become the master of the "matter" of truth again, that is, the master of truth! . . . however much one rejoices, in joy it is always the same person.Because, he is happy as an artist, he enjoys himself as power, and enjoys his power as a lie...

two. Art is nothing more than art!It is the feat that makes life possible, the seducer of life, the great stimulant of life. Art is the single best resistance against all will to deny life, the most anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, and above all anti-nihilistic. Art is the salvation of the knower—that is, of the man who sees, wants to see, the horror and doubtful character of life, the tragic knower. Art is the salvation of the actor, that is, of the man who not only sees but is experiencing, wants to experience, the horror and doubtful character of life, the tragic, warlike man, the hero. .

Art is the salvation of the suffering man - the way to the pain and the hoped-for, the hallowed, the sanctified state, where pain becomes a form of the great stimulant. (Translated by Zhang Niandong and Ling Suxin)