On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Title: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Description: His famous short essay on how language and concepts turn living experience into frozen metaphors. A quick, sharp read that many see as the seed of his later attack on truth and morality.

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