What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is an eternal phenomenon: the insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — 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
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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