Human, All Too HumanSECTION NINEMan Alone with Himself483 Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #483 | 150 | 13 years, 2 months ago | | | 484 Topsy-turvy world. We criticize a thinker more sharply when he proposes a tenet that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do this when we find his tenet agreeable. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #484 | 161 | 13 years, 2 months ago | | | 485 A person of character. It is much more common for a person to appear to have character because he always acts in accord with his temperament, rather than because he always acts in accord with his principles. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #485 | 116 | 13 years, 2 months ago | | | 486 The one necessary thing. A person must have one or the other. either a disposition which is easygoing by nature, or else a disposition eased by art and knowledge. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #486 | 138 | 13 years, 2 months ago | | | 487 Passion for things. He who directs his passion to things (the sciences, the national good, cultural interests, the arts) takes'.", much of the fire out of his passion for people (even when they represent those things, as statesmen, philosophers, and artier represent their creations). | Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #487 | 116 | 13 years, 2 months ago | | |
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