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Quotes from On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense — Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1900 Germany

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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.

On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)

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