What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation, and decoration, and which, after they have been in use for a long time, strike a people as firmly established, canonical, and binding…
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I like it when the quotes are only categorized in theory, not in actuality.
I agree with you particularly as far as this quote goes; it is ironic, though, how Nietzsche’s own highly poetical description has taken its own advice and petrified (as “firmly established, canonical and binding”) into a kind of absolute “Truth” for today’s relativistic society.