Lying Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche