“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am… — 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
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — 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
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — 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
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
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — 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
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — 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
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