Sense:
“Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept ‘leaf’ is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the ‘leaf’: the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted – but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model. We call a person ‘honest’, and then we ask ‘why has he behaved so honestly today?’ Our usual answer is, ‘on account of his honesty.’ Honesty! This in turn means that the leaf is the cause of the leaves.”
I enjoy this statement a lot because it reminds me of my science teachers throughout elementary through high school. While, we learned about how things are not all the same size we talked about snow formation. “Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another”. Nietzsche further explains how the creation of a leaf can mirror the actions of people, “…but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model…”. We no longer are the “original model”, we have been shaped and molded to deceive people.
Non- sense:
“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins. We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from.”
What I don;t understand is her statement or realization she has made on how to find out where truth has originated from. I got confused because maybe I thought she had come to realize how we are honest, or truthful. Then I think she finds we have lost where truth has come from, “worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.” Her choice of words, “worn out”, and “lost” make me wonder how she was able to find truth.