Honest Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

9 Honest quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s nine short reflections on honesty cut straight to the heart of his philosophy. This compact set offers a taste of his probing, often paradoxical view of truth and self‑knowledge.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always…

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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into…

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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well…

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“Take good care there, you higher men! For nothing today is more precious to me and rarer than honesty. Is this today…

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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind…

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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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