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Great Quotes To Ponder

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. Nietzsche

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David Kavanagh

Date: 3/16/2024 4:45:00 PM

Oxymoronically Chris this would make Nietzsche’s quote above a truth, I do love these paradoxical ones, cheers David

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/19/2024 9:18:00 AM

My initial interpretation was based on the wording of the quote, as you pasted it here, not its premise, and if taken at face value I see a logical paradox, which perspectively can be interpreted as a truth, and from your perspective as false!

Chris Con
Date: 3/19/2024 7:40:00 AM

The “quotes” premise is the distinction between intelligence vs. ignorance, perception vs.stupidity and ultimately, master vs. slave.

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/18/2024 1:22:00 PM

Not in Nietzsche’s eyes, and they’re the ones we’re looking through here after all!

Chris Con
Date: 3/18/2024 6:08:00 AM

That would be incorrect.

Tom Woody

Date: 11/16/2023 6:28:00 AM

I would disagree. There is relative truth. There are lies. Then there is absolute truth. But I understand your pov. The world is a confusing, contradictory place

Chris Con
Date: 11/16/2023 7:27:00 AM

Fictions possess us. It’s all that we are.