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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #beautiful #defined #degenerate #domain

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#absolute truth #another #nowhere #relations #symbols

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗