FRIEDERICH NIETZCHE

"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphism: 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. Tuths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions, they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins"

- Friederich Nietzsche


Source: Friedrich Nietzsche quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157.