"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space… — 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
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
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He wants to be known deep down, abysmally deep down, before he is capable of being loved at all; he dares to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind… — 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
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — 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
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
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
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
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — 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
