nietzsche on truth
I thought is might be interesting to start the mornining by looking at what the old master has to say about 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.
And again:
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist.
Finally:
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.
