"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.
Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors
that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which
have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as
coins.
"We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from. For so far
we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be
truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this
is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in
a manner binding upon everyone..."
http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/nietzsche/nietzsche.php?name=nietzsche.1873.ontruthandliesinanonmoralsense
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