Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Lying

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Lying, Libertarian, Anarchy

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Pity, Danger

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lying, Religion

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Doubt, Belief

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Liars, Lying

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Law, Hatred

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William A. Haussmann, Maximilian August Mügge, John McFarland Kennedy, Anthony Mario Ludovici (1927). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Self, Knowing Who You Are

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Ignorance, Black

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.70, Booklassic

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Father, Lying, Son

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.88, Friederich Nietzsche

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Cost, Pay

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Warrior, Enemy

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Creativity, Knowledge

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Men, Talking

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness, Women, Lying

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Hero, Pregnancy

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Wrestling, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Lying, Conditions

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fake People, Truth, Lying

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Doe, Cost

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Race, Progress

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Doe, Common

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Monsters, States

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Liars, Lying, Doe

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Lying

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