“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters”
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.”
Amanda Hocking
Virtue
“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”
Henry Petroski
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
“The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos rose and sank slowly like pickled eggs.”
Terry Pratchett
“When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.”
Hannah Arendt
On Revolution