"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."
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Alex Kennedytwitter.com"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
Joseph Campbell calls the “ultimate truth.” Campbell posits that myth and ritual can only be the “penultimate truth.” Nothing in human language or in art can adequately express the immensity of the one energy that underlies existence.
Amy Wright Glenn • Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula
"Nietzsche’s statement ‘God is dead’ had said the unsayable to an age unwilling to go so far as to acknowledge the obvious: that without belief in the divine there was no longer any moral authority for the laws that had persisted throughout the civilisation built over the last two thousand years." (Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!)
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
There’s truth that lives And truth that dies I don’t know which So never mind