Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Deception

• It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Self, Deception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.340, Vintage

• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

• Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Independent, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Liars, Lying

• It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Hypocrisy, Deception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.212, Courier Corporation

• It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Passion, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.154, Courier Corporation

• How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Order, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Artist, Deceived Us

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.275, Cambridge University Press

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