Single Idea 23520

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth]

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.

Gist of Idea

Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 50)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.167


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.