Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Courage Quotes, Truth Quotes

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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