Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another . . . I dream of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
