Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Truth Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

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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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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

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Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

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Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

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Know what you do not know.

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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