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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Honesty

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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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.

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

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

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

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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Love

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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Browse 217 quotes attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, listed in the source data as a German Philosopher, organized around themes such as Honesty, Love, Art. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.