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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Facts, Absolute Truth, Eternal
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.10, 谷月社

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Confused, Confusion, Biographies

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sweet, Hard Times, Life Is Hard

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Writing, Mouths

The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Lying, Conditions

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Experience
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering, Criminals, Criminal Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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
Eye, Sphinx, Results

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Struggle, Boredom, Vain
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.729, Simon and Schuster

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Goal, Doe

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Guilt, Doe, Forget

No victor believes in chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Motivational, Believe, Chance
The Gay Science bk. 3, no. 258 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Delight, Language
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.243, U of Nebraska Press

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Moving, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.73, Xist Publishing

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Men, Principles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.209, Courier Corporation

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Moving On, Dance
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.188, Penguin

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Hate, Enough
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.114, Penguin

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Adversity, Facts, Human Nature

Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Men, Support
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Shameless, Poet
Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Desire, Deeds

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Funny, Men

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche
Self Esteem, Thinking, Esteem

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Good Night, Dream, Art
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgotten, Illusion

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