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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...more

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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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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Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

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Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more

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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.

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Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding...more

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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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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A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

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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...more

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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

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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...more

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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 ...more