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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Matter, Impulse
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Willard Huntington Wright (1917). “What Nietzsche Taught”

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, People, Host
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Feelings, Triumph

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Philosophical, Break Out

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Storm
Friedrich Nietzsche (2007). “Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are”, p.5, OUP Oxford

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Morning, Men, Noon

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise, Running, Wisdom

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Indispensable, Aesthetic
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Soul, Wickedness, Sublimity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Voice, Mislead Us, Sound

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Creative, Feelings
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Men, Monsters

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Theory, Triumphant
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.222, Courier Corporation

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Joy, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Order, Needs, Done
"The Joyful Wisdom".

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagine, Genealogy, Offenders
Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 2, Section 10, 1887.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Growth, Decline

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Reading, Paradox

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Hate, Rights
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Fundamentals, Found
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.138, Courier Corporation

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Stills
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.223, Vintage

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Doubt, Able
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt, Insane, Certainty
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Destiny, Men

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