No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. — 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
“It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes,… — 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
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.” — 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