An analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense represents a deconstruction of the modern epistemological project. Instead of seeking the truth, he suggests that the ultimate truth is that we must live without such truth and without a sense of longing for that truth. This revolutionary work of his is divided into two main sections. The first part addresses the question of what is truth? Here he discusses the implication of language in our acquisition of knowledge. The second part deals with the dual nature of man, that is, the rational and the intuitive. He establishes that neither the rational nor the intuitive man ever achieves knowledge because of our illusion of truth. Therefore, Nietzsche concludes that all we can claim to know are interpretations of the truth and not the truth itself. AnalysisIn the first part of his work, Nietzsche states that: “The pride connected with knowledge and feeling lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses. of men, thus deceiving them about the value of existence” (Nietzsche 451-452). Here it seems that Nietzsche is trying to reject any empirical sense of acquiring knowledge. For example, I know that I am sitting in a wooden chair because I can see the chair, feel the texture of the wood, touch it, and even smell the aroma. But Nietzsche argues that we only perceive the surface of things and that our “senses lead nowhere to the truth” (Nietzsche 452). This is what Nietzsche meant by using the analogy of our senses as a “blinding fog over the eyes” and thus deceiving us about our knowledge of things. But how do we know what's true and what's false? What is truth versus lies? Its... middle of paper... something when it's a fact? , we never ask ourselves why we know this. We tend to take for granted what matters most in this world, and that is knowing ourselves. Human beings think that knowledge of things will lead them to enlightenment but an illusion created by man himself to create some kind of path to success. Those who follow this path will not come closer to success, rather, they will bring suffering along the way, distancing us from ourselves. Thus, if only we were aware of this deceptive nature of language and the metaphor of that of knowledge, we would come to understand that truth is in fact nothing more than a word created by man and is therefore a mere figment of our imagination. The facts don't matter, only our interpretation of them. It therefore seems that reality is not that far from our dreams, perhaps it is just the opposite.