Quotes

Mobile army of metaphors(1)

From [1]:

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions.

Bibliography
[1]
F. Nietzsche, β€œOn truth and lie in an extra-moral sense,” The Portable Nietzsche, vol. 42, pp. 46–47, 1954.