"A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
There are no facts, only interpretations.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical...
"There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am...
"Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to win your argument against us, but ...
"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
"The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life toli...
"No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eye...
"This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
"...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.
"Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value."This unconditional will to truth—what is it? Is i...
"It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We p...
"Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...