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“The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it.”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
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“It is enough to regard science as an attempt to humanize things as faithfully as possible; in describing things and their successions, we learn to describe ourselves ever more precisely. Cause and effect—there probably is no such duality; in truth, a continuum stands before us, two segments of which we isolate, just as we perceive movement always only as isolated points and, so, do not really but infer it. The abruptness with which any effects leap out misleads us; it is an abruptness only for us.”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“All that is proper to man, however, is faith in the attainable truth, in the ever approaching, confidence-inspiring illusion. Does he not in fact live by constant deception? Doesn’t nature conceal virtually everything from him, even what is nearest, for example, his own body, of which he has only a spurious “consciousness"? He is locked up in this consciousness, and nature has thrown away the key.”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
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