true world

was always, however conceived, the apparent world once again.

“The 'true world', however it has been conceived of up to now - it was always the apparent world once again.”

versus apparent world reduces to the antithesis "world" and "nothing."

“But there is no "other," no "true," no essential being—for this would be the expression of a world without action and reaction—The antithesis of the apparent world and the true world is reduced to the antithesis "world" and "nothing.”

is just a lie added on to the apparent world, which is the only world.

“The 'apparent' world is the only world: the 'true world' is just a lie added on to it . . .”

and apparent world mean: the mendaciously invented world and reality.

“The "true world" and the "apparent world"-that means: the mendaciously invented world and reality.”

must be abolished: it is the great devaluer of the world we are — our most dangerous attempt yet to assassinate life.

“It is of cardinal importance that one should abolish the true world. It is the great inspirer of doubt and devaluator in respect of the world we are: it has been our most dangerous attempt yet to assassinate life.”

is fabricated solely from psychological needs; once we see this, we can neither believe in it nor endure the only world left.

“But as soon as man finds out how that world is fabricated solely from psychological needs, and how he has absolutely no right to it, the last form of nihilism comes into being”

is the most amazing trick ever perpetrated on us: so much is encrusted in the word "true" that believing in it feels obligatory, out of decency.

“a true world: this is the most amazing trick and attack that has ever been perpetrated upon us; so much has become encrusted in the word "true," and involuntarily we make a present of all this to the "true world": the true world must also be a truthful world, one that does not deceive us”

is the conditions of our preservation projected as predicates of being — because we must be stable in belief to prosper, it had to be a world that is, not one that becomes.

“we have projected the conditions of our preservation as predicates of being in general; we have taken the fact that in order to prosper we have to be stable in our belief, and made of it that the 'true' world is not one which changes and becomes, but one which is.”

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