Adventitious Liars
Friedrich Nietzsche
Track 30 on The Gay Science
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Adventitious Liars Lyrics
When people began to combat the Aristotelian unities in France, and consequently others also to defend it, there was once more to be seen that which has been seen so often but that which the people were loathe to see : one lied, mendaciously inventing reasons for those laws to exist, simply to avoid acknowledging to themselves that they had accustomed themselves to the authority of those laws and did not want to have things otherwise. And people do so in every prevailing morality and religion, and have always done so: the reasons and intentions behind the habit are only added surreptitiously when people begin to combat the habit and ask for reasons and intentions. It is here that the great dishonesty of the conservatives of all times hides: they are adventitious liars.
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- 10.Our Eruptions
- 12.Consciousness
- 19.Ancient Pride
- 20.Evil
- 21.Dignity of Folly
- 27.What is Life?
- 30.Adventitious Liars
- 37.Last Words
- 39.Explosive People
- 40.Altered Taste
- 42.Against Remorse
- 43.Work and boredom
- 44.What Laws reveal
- 45.Supposed Motives
- 46.Epicurus
- 47.Our Astonishment
- 52.Sense for Truth
- 58.To the Realists
- 60.We Artists!
- 63.Love
- 64.Woman in Music
- 65.Sceptics
- 66.Devotedness
- 68.Self dissembling
- 73.Mothers
- 74.Saintly Cruelty
- 75.The Unsuccessful
- 76.The Third Sex
- 81.Art and Nature
- 82.Grecian taste
- 84.Translations
- 87.The Theatre
- 90.Now and Formerly
- 92.Precaution
- 93.Prose and Poetry
- 96.Chamfort
- 97.Two Orators
- 102.Voltaire
- 104.German Music
- 107.Music as Advocate
- 109.New Struggles
- 111.Origin of Knowledge
- 113.Cause and Effect
- 116.The Four Errors
- 117.Herd Instinct
- 119.Benevolence
- 120.No Altruism!
- 121.Health of the Soul
- 122.Life no Argument
- 126.The Madman
- 129.The Value of Prayer
- 133.Against Christianity
- 134.Axioms
- 136.Origin of Sin
- 137.The Chosen People
- 138.Spoken in Parable
- 139.The Error of Christ.
- 141.Too Jewish
- 142.Too Oriental
- 143.Frankincense
- 145.Religious Wars
- 147.German Hopes
- 148.Question and Answer
- 151.Criticism of Saints
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