The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
¶ (Attributed)
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
¶ (Attributed)
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
¶ (Attributed)
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
¶ (Attributed)
It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
¶ (Attributed)
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
¶ (Attributed)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
¶ (Attributed)
I could not believe in a God that could not dance.
¶ (Attributed)
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
¶ (Attributed)
It is not so much the suffering as the senselessness of it that is unendurable.
¶ (Attributed)
'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
¶ (Attributed)
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
¶ (Attributed)
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
¶ (Attributed)
He who has a strong enough why to live for, can bear almost any how.
¶ (Attributed)
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
¶ (Attributed)
A very popular error -- having the courage of your convictions. Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.
¶ (Attributed)
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
¶ (Attributed)
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
¶ Human, All Too Human (1878-86)
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
¶ Twilight of the Gods, "Maxims and Arrows" (8) (1889)
(tr. R. J. Hollingdale, 1968)
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