Saturday, January 11, 2025

 

Truth and the State

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Untimely Meditations, III: Schopenhauer as Educator, § 8 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale):
The state never has any use for truth as such, but only for truth which is useful to it, more precisely for anything whatever useful to it whether it be truth, half-truth or error.

Dem Staat ist es nie an der Wahrheit gelegen, sondern immer nur an der ihm nützlichen Wahrheit, noch genauer gesagt, überhaupt an allem ihm Nützlichen, sei dies nun Wahrheit, Halbwahrheit oder Irrthum.



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