"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."
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Alex Kennedytwitter.com"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
here? Why do you believe that?” The disciple answered, “I believe in Zarathustra.” But Zarathustra shook his head and smiled. “Faith does not make me blessed,” he said, “especially not faith in me. But suppose somebody said in all seriousness, the poets lie too much: he would be right; we do lie too much. We also know too little and we are bad lear
... See moreFriedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
- Can you absolutely know that it’s true? This is an opportunity to go deeper into the unknown, to find the answers that live beneath what we think we know. All I can tell you about this realm is that what lives beneath the nightmare is a good thing. Do you really want to know the truth?
Stephen Mitchell • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
I am arguing that what we say about religion is repeated in other areas like art and ethics, in everything that goes to make up our wider conception of life. My hypothesis is that religion is a clue to the travels and travails of truth, not the truth of assertions,