Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Assumption

• Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Lying, Animal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Philosophy, Inspiration

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers, §5., 1886.

• Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Equality, Opposites

• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.37, 谷月社

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