Friedrich Nietzsche Illusion Quotations

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.