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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Inability, Truthfulness
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.245, Penguin

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Laughter, Men

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny, Men, Decision
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Pride, Animal
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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

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Truth, Animal, Men

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

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Doe, Deeds, Causality
"The Portable Nietzsche".

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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Hate, Eye, Envy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doe, Knows
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.111, e-artnow

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Greatness, Intellectual

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

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Eye, Men, Followers
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1913). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

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Lying, Eye, Expression

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Age, Culture
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid, Humility, Charity

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Half, Knows
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

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Knowing, Thanks, Coarse
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

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Overcoming, Emotion, Beyond Good And Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.77, Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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Wind, Purpose, Sail

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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Self, Nevertheless, Fetters
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.65, Jester House Publishing

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Mean, Ladders

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

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Moving, Mountain, Raises
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Judging, Way, Existential
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Independence, Tests
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.31, e-artnow

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Lying, Knowledge
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Laughing, Today
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Friedrich Nietzsche

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