Friedrich Nietzsche Errors Quotations

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

A life without music is an error.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

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.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.