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Ideas for 'works', 'Iteration Again' and 'The Anti-Christ'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Truth has had to be fought for every step of the way, almost everything else dear to our hearts, on which our love and our trust in life depend, has had to be sacrificed to it.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 50)
     A reaction: This, in one of his final works, seems to contradict every idea that Nietzsche is the high priest of relativism about truth. He (and Foucault) and interested in the social role of truth, but are not so daft as to reject its possibility.
One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: One must never ask whether truth is useful.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], Fore)