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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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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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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.