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Quotes from On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense — Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1900 Germany

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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

"Appearance" is a word that contains many temptations, which is why I avoid it as much as possible. For it is not true that the essence of things "appears" in the empirical world. A painter without hands who wished to express in song the picture before his mind would, by means of this substitution of spheres, still reveal more about the essence of things than does the empirical world.

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

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