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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Truth

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Truth, People

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Encouraging, Witty, Truth

Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Real, Real Questions

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lying, Religion

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Mountain, Vain

Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.129, 谷月社

On every parable you ride to every truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Parables

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.182, Penguin

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Truth, Revenge

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Eye, Moon

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Doubt, Belief

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

Truth, Justice, Pure

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter Preuss (1980). “On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Knowledge, Moral

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

We are all afraid of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth

Friedrich Nietzsche (2007). “Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are”, p.26, OUP Oxford

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

Truth, Believe, Men

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fake People, Truth, Lying

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Philosophical, Men

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Fear, Knowledge

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Existentialism, Shallow

"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage, Truth, Integrity

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Animal, Men

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Science, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Educational, Atheism

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Meaningful, Religious, Truth

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