I've always enjoyed Nietzsche and I'm currently reading some of his works.

Nietzche writes.....There are no facts, only interpretations. (Nachlass).   I so love this particular line because there are no truer words than I've read.

I'm also quite fond of what he writes in the Viking Portable:

What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all... 'On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense.

Everybody has there own definition of what the truth is and what a lie is.  What I might consider a lie, might not be a lie to someone else.  It truly amazes me what we go through to "keep it real" , not get it "twisted", be "fake" or some other modern day version of plain ole "bullshit".  Who really dabbles in the truth all the damn time?

I've made a commitment to myself this year to just "make it plain" and not hold back my comments....yeah, some of my friends don't think I hold back as it is.  But I do sometimes and I'm not always as blunt as I can be....lol

I'm going to continue on with my reading.