truth Quotes

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.