Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the se

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Women
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. – Johann von Goethe

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Senses

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. – Mervyn Peake

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Senses

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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Senses

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The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. – David Friedrich Strauss

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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