Quotations From FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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  Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 430, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 122, "Good Memory," (1879).
  
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• 862.

  But what are man's truths in the end?—They are man's irrefutable errors.

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 518, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, "Third Book," aphorism 265, "Ultimate Skepticism," (1882).