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It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized — Friedrich Nietzsche

We possess art lest we perish of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even - quench thirst? — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The real question is: How much truth can I stand? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love of truth is something fearsome and mighty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth. — Simon Critchley

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive
signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche

On every parable you ride to every truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth — Friedrich Nietzsche

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed — Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This workshop where ideals are manufactured
it seems to me it stinks of so many lies — Friedrich Nietzsche

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters — Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! — Friedrich Nietzsche

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished most for one's virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water! — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all afraid of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One times One.-One only is always in the wrong, but with two truth begins.-One only cannot prove himself right; but two are already beyond refutation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions
as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul? — Friedrich Nietzsche

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE — Donna Tartt

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not lie does not know what truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The labyrinthine man never seeks the truth but always and only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then? — Friedrich Nietzsche

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche

HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art,' Nietzsche said, 'so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth. — Michael Ondaatje

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie? — Friedrich Nietzsche

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche