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Posted at 22 Apr, 08:56h in Authoritarian, Civilian, Imaginary Communities, Nationalism, Territorial by

Monumental history deceives by analogies: with seductive similarities it inspires the courageous to foolhardiness and the inspired to fanaticism.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is 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.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche. “On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”, 1873.

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