"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
"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
Truth is not what happens, but something going on in what happens. So, to think of truth as an ‘event’ is to think of something that is trying to happen in something. Truth is the process of trying to become-true.
John D. Caputo • Truth: Philosophy in Transit
Les convictions sont des ennemies de la vérité plus dangereuses que les mensonges.
Friedrich Nietzsche • Il faut vivre dangereusement - Une pensée par jour (French Edition)
Nietzsche wrote (before he went mad). If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Or, to take a simpler simile, truth, which cannot be expressed in any other way than by myth and allegory, is like water that cannot be transported without a vessel; but philosophers, who insist upon possessing it pure, are like a person who breaks the vessel in order to get the water by itself. This is perhaps a true analogy. At any rate, religion
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moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it’s true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.”
Neal Stephenson • Anathem
There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.