Perspectivism Quotes

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but the value of Truth - as the enemy. There will be even fewer surprises that I would reject the Dionysian Nietzsche, the celebrant of transgressive desire.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Where you stand on process depends on where you stand on outcomes.

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument.

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.