Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Truth Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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