Top 100 Quotes About Truth Nietzsche
#1. We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE
Donna Tartt
#2. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. We have art,' Nietzsche said, 'so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.
Michael Ondaatje
#5. It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us - or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even - quench thirst?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth.
Simon Critchley
#14. All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. The dignity of folly
And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence could spur the growth of a new kind of nobility.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. 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
#19. The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. 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
#22. [Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. 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
#31. For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth ... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#55. You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that
I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the
truth at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. The labyrinthine man never seeks the truth but always and only his Ariadne.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. 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
#79. Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions
as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.
Norman Geisler
#82. As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. One times One.-One only is always in the wrong, but with two truth begins.-One only cannot prove himself right; but two are already beyond refutation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. 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
#90. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom
it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely - "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien" - I wager he finds nothing!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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