"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions." - Friedrich Nietzsche
taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
“TRUTH with capital letters!” Nietzsche exclaimed. “I forget, Josef, that scientists have still to learn that TRUTH, too, is an illusion—but an illusion without which we can’t survive.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
here? Why do you believe that?” The disciple answered, “I believe in Zarathustra.” But Zarathustra shook his head and smiled. “Faith does not make me blessed,” he said, “especially not faith in me. But suppose somebody said in all seriousness, the poets lie too much: he would be right; we do lie too much. We also know too little and we are bad lear
... See moreFriedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
I think we hold the truth in too high an esteem. The truth is a tool, like a kitchen knife. You can use it for its purpose or you can use it—No, that’s not quite right. The truth is inert. It has no intrinsic power. Lies have all the power.