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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate wor...more

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This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

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...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.

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest...more

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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...more

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Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty a...more

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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...more

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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a ki...more

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It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

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Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

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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.