“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.”

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher of the late 19th century, Nietzsche is best known for his critical examination of traditional morality and religion, as well as his influential concepts like the "will to power" and the "Übermensch." His provocative critiques of culture, art, and human nature continue to shape philosophical and psychological thought.

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