“as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!”

“This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.”

“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions.from "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense”

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”