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Men were considered free only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Independent, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

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Lying, Passing Away, Causes

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

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Philosophy, Lying, Believe
"Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

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Lying, Men, Truthful

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

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Lying, Differences, Tree

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

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Lying, Doe, Truth Is

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

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Lying, Government, People

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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Lying, Writing, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.38, Penguin

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Power, Doe

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

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Lying, Men, Light
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library

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

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Life, Success, Lying

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

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

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Lying, People, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.102, Vintage

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

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Faith, Lying, Mean
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Mean, Waiting

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

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Lying, Philosophical, Break Out

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

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Faith, Lying, Causes
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.54, e-artnow

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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Lying, Common, Exception

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Men, Indignant

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Indignant

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Soul, Pure Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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