Reality has been robbed of its value, its sense, its truthfulness insofar as an ideal world was faked up... The ‘real world’ and the ‘apparent world’ — in plain words: the fake world and reality*... The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down to its deepest instincts—to the point of worshipping values opposite to the only ones which would guarantee it a flourishing, a future, the exalted right to a future.
