Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at... →
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at... →
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but... →
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its... →
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.