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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - All things are subject to interpretation...


Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.




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Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.











Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.











Quotes for: power


Quotes

Quotes about power:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.





They succeed, because they think they can.





Knowledge is power.





Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.





The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.











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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...




Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Become who you are!





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.












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