Nietzsche, questioning and admiring himself throughout “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, is trying to speak in the fourth dimension, criticizing the people of the age, to explain how it is the norm to be deceive oneself realizing the truth. This concept is similar to translations within languages; when certain words cannot be transcribed to represent the original word as a whole. Nietzsche (765) describes people being fake to oneself and to one another, in an effort to

“preserve himself in relation to another, in the state of nature he mostly used his intellect for conceal-ment and dissimulation; however, because necessity and boredom also lead men to want to live in societies and herds, they need a peace treaty…”

In order to have a moment of peace, people let go of what they believe in to assimilate into society, burying deep inside them their true self. It gets confusing to what is the “truth” (766-771), in sum, truth is an illusion depicted through metaphors (768) but these truths are unique,

“the only things we really know about them[, the relations between things,] are things which we bring to bear on them”.

Nietzsche states that things are things because we make them “things”. The way one person sees something can differ from what another seed it as, but as a society we have to adjust this thing with a name.

For example, what is a mental picture of rock to you? A bland gray colored rock perhaps, I pictured sand first and caves. Nietzsche would say that we do not have a precise concept of what it is supposed to look like but depends on what we have been taught and what is in the area around us. For the word “rock”, it could’ve been a pebble or even testicles, according to Google, as part of vulgar slang.

Now, following on in Google, for me the first thing that appears is this picture from a Wikipedia page.  All of these things have a similar ideal in common, a “rock” is roundish-shape, bland in color, in an empty area, perhaps surrounded by other rocks.