"Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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“All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.”
“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”
“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”
More on Truth
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”
“I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.”
“He who seeks truth should be of no country.”
More on Error
“L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.”
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”