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Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols

The “twilight of the idols” as Nietzsche describes it are the things that influence people in
each generation. The idols we worship in a sense tell us what to believe in, and we buy into everything they tell us. These idols are: truth, science, reason, and god (in the idea sense of religion). This “idols” have forced us to be stuck inside “the cave”. We accept these ideas without any hesitation, it suits us to believe that in them because t...

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