Pop Quiz

[Anonymouse]

What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.

We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all...

A happy face smiley to the first person who guesses which person that quote came from. And the person who answers correctly poses another pop quiz question.

[Sip]

I wonder what TomServo has to say about this

[Anonymouse]

I wonder what TomServo has to say about this

If you know the answer, by all means post it.

[Sip]

But I cheated so I'm not worthy. Let's see if someone actually knows the answer.

[One-Way]

Who's confused?

*Raises hand*

[omniscient]

From the same guy who said this :

To accept a faith just because it is customary, means to be dishonest, to be cowardly, to be lazy. And do dishonesty, cowardice, and laziness then appear as the presupposition of morality?

Who is also a person you have quoted from a lot, mr. N.

[Anonymouse]

You guys all cheated.

[omniscient]

You guys all cheated.

You are correct, the power of Yahoo and Google is excellent . However, I did get interested and start reading about him and I found that quote I listed and I like it.

[TomServo]

A philosopher, obviously.

[violette829]

Richard Nixon.