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Single Idea 24114
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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Full Idea
The truth hurts because it destroys a belief: not in itself.
Gist of Idea
The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 9[48])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.322
A Reaction
There are hideous events, about which it can be dreadful to learn the truth, but the unpleasantness is in the fact, not in the truth of the fact. So, yes.
The
40 ideas
from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'
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24096
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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
[Nietzsche]
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24084
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Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity
[Nietzsche]
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24085
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For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed
[Nietzsche]
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24086
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The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable
[Nietzsche]
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24087
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People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty'
[Nietzsche]
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24088
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See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life
[Nietzsche]
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24089
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Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
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24115
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There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall
[Nietzsche]
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24090
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Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
[Nietzsche]
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24091
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The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation
[Nietzsche]
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24116
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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
[Nietzsche]
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24092
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I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive
[Nietzsche]
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24093
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We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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24117
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We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control
[Nietzsche]
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24094
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Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones
[Nietzsche]
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24095
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24118
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Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24119
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The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought
[Nietzsche]
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24120
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Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
[Nietzsche]
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24122
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
[Nietzsche]
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24123
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
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24097
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The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning
[Nietzsche]
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24098
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Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24121
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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious
[Nietzsche]
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24099
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We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind
[Nietzsche]
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24100
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If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war
[Nietzsche]
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24101
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
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24102
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Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
[Nietzsche]
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24103
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You should not want too many virtues; one is enough
[Nietzsche]
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24104
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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
[Nietzsche]
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24105
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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
[Nietzsche]
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24106
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Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined
[Nietzsche]
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24107
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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
[Nietzsche]
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24108
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Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose
[Nietzsche]
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24109
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Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
[Nietzsche]
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24110
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Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals
[Nietzsche]
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24111
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
[Nietzsche]
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24112
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To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
[Nietzsche]
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24113
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Our motives don't explain our actions
[Nietzsche]
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24114
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The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
[Nietzsche]
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