Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical...
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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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To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.
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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...
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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 ...
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
