| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42049 |
| QUOTATION: | All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 200, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 178, trans. by R.J. Hollingdale, Baltimore, Penguin Books (1961). The dwarf that is the “spirit of gravity,” in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Third Part, “On the Vision and the Riddle,” section 2 (1884). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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