Related Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche
Related Topics: abstraction, language, metaphor, myths, representation, truth










What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
Related Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche
Related Topics: abstraction, language, metaphor, myths, representation, truth
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