Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Lying

• Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Libertarian, Anarchy

• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

• 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

• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Warrior, Enemy

• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Religion

• A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.38, Penguin

• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Government, People

• I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Integrity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• The lie is a condition of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Lying, Conditions

• 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

• What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying

• 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

• Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

• Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Army, Order

• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

  "Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

• Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Ignorance, Black

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.70, Booklassic

• There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Together, Secrecy

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Liars, Lying

• Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doubt, Belief

• A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Lying, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Self, Knowing Who You Are

• I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Common

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

• The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Evil, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Character, Dishonesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pride, Animal

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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