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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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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.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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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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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
Friedrich Nietzsche