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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Truth is the pearl without price. one cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. you lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. it is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. if thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. if virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. it is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

It is neither art for art, nor art against art. i am for art, but for art that has nothing to do with art. art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with art.

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the constitution of the united states.

It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

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