I know that it's a lost cause invoking Friedrich Nietzsche against the intolerant religious right and those who deny global warming, decry stem cell research, and legislate against sex education and even the most non-invasive birth control techniques. But, in the line of my work I serendipitously ran across the following quote with which I am compelled to share:
What is truth? -- Who would not agree with the conclusion which the faithful like to draw:
Science cannot be true for it denies God. Hence it does not come from God; hence it is not true -- for God is truth."
Not the conclusion, but the premise is at fault: how if God were not the truth, and if this could be proved? If He were the vanity, the lust for power, the impatience, the terror, the enraptured and terrified delusion of men?
. . . back to the Reference Desk. (citation info below)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
The dawn of day. New York : Macmillan, 1903. page 83 (aphorism no. 93). Translation by Johanna Volz of Nietzche's
Morgenröte originally published in 1881.