"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...
A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
"There are no facts, only interpretations.
"Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
"Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
"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...
"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.
"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...
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical...
"There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
"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...
"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 ...