The Art of Travel

by

Alain De Botton

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Friedrich Nietzsche Character Analysis

A prominent 19th-century German philosopher whom Alain de Botton frequently quotes throughout his book. He argued that travel can be valuable because it allows people to learn information that they can use to enrich their own lives, rejected the notion that painters can ever merely reproduce the world exactly as it is, and appreciated Xavier de Maistre’s ability to “make much of little.”

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes in The Art of Travel

The The Art of Travel quotes below are all either spoken by Friedrich Nietzsche or refer to Friedrich Nietzsche. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes

The guidebook might have added, “and where there must be something wrong with the traveller who cannot agree.”

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Related Characters: Alain de Botton (speaker), Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich Nietzsche
Page Number: 111
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Chapter 7 Quotes

‘Completely true to nature!’—what a lie:
How could nature ever be constrained into a picture?
The smallest bit of nature is infinite!
And so he paints what he likes about it.
And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Nietzsche 188

Related Characters: Friedrich Nietzsche (speaker), Alain de Botton , Vincent van Gogh
Page Number: 188
Explanation and Analysis:
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes in The Art of Travel

The The Art of Travel quotes below are all either spoken by Friedrich Nietzsche or refer to Friedrich Nietzsche. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Familiar and the Foreign Theme Icon
).
Chapter 4 Quotes

The guidebook might have added, “and where there must be something wrong with the traveller who cannot agree.”

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Related Characters: Alain de Botton (speaker), Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich Nietzsche
Page Number: 111
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

‘Completely true to nature!’—what a lie:
How could nature ever be constrained into a picture?
The smallest bit of nature is infinite!
And so he paints what he likes about it.
And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Nietzsche 188

Related Characters: Friedrich Nietzsche (speaker), Alain de Botton , Vincent van Gogh
Page Number: 188
Explanation and Analysis: