“Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — 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
“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
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — 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
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you… — 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
“It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — 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
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — 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
“...wherever the strength of a faith steps decisively into the foreground, we infer a certain weakness in its ability to demonstrate its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — 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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