Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins."
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"Success has always been a great liar."
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"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
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"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
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"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around."
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"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters."
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."
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"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."
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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
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"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
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"Fear is the mother of morality."
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