Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The dignity of folly And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For all the value that the true, the truthful, the selfless may deserve, it would still be possible that a higher and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — 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
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