Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

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

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.