Talk:Philosophers East vs West/@comment-25012248-20150703230206/@comment-25012248-20150704044840

The legendary tales of the Assassins actually have not only inspired fiction writers (and video games developers as well—see below), but also Nietzsche, who often found inspiration in mythology and folk tales. He praised the Assassins in his book The Genealogy of Morality (see section 24 here) as an example of free-spirited men, because, Nietzsche contended, they “emancipated” themselves from the very belief in the value of truth, and hence they were able to transcend the “oppressive” framework of Judeo-Christian morality. He summed up the philosophy of the Assassins in their supposed motto: Nothing is true – Everything is permitted. I’m not sure where this motto originated from: Did Nietzsche himself make it up or had it already been attributed to the Assassins in polemical writings against them?

Some people have different out looks on your answers as you can tell. BTW this above post is from an article. Here:

https://religionculturesociety.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/the-assassins-creed-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/