Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Words are but symbols for the...
Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:
German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist whose work deeply influenced modern thought.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Quote source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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(German, French)
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Quotes for: truth
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Quotes for: word
One of the most difficult matters in all controversy is to distinguish disputes about words from disputes about facts.
Quotes for: symbol
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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