Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Evidence

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

• Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Passing Away, Causes

• It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Kindness, Character, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.163, Courier Corporation

• The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Resistance, Charm, Obvious

• We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Thinking, Play

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