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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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This book includes selections from Nietzsche's writings, offering insights into his philosophy and critical analysis of modern society more

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

“The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.”

Humans Matter Character Truth Law Science Can Do Wealth Conditions Mankind Institutions Productions Distribution Arbitrary Optional Distribution Of Wealth

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.”

Giving Doe Helping Use Truth Science Logic Foundation Errors Notion Harm Stability Search For Truth

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”

Made States Reason Light Truth Born Grew Universal Dear Tyranny Ancestor Betray Scarce Torches

Book:The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes

Source: The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes

“The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.”

Men Hands Truth Science Blood He Man Thousand Atoms Slaughter Platitudes Scientific Truth

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.”