Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
- Topic: Truth
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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More on Truth
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
