"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: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and cultural critic whose works challenged religion, morality, and metaphysics. His books include Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morality. His thought deeply influenced modern philosophy and literature.

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