According to Nietzsche, at the heart of language and cognition is deception. To completely understand why he believes that to be so we would have to understand how he defines truth. Nietzsche defines truth as being a set of metaphors, similes, poetics, rhetorical  intensification and translations which have been in use for a long time, so much so that we have forgotten they are not firmly established (768). He believes that the truths that we now hold dear are forgotten illusions. We have come to a point when people have forgotten that we are the ones who have defined what something is or is not. We are the ones that have decide that a rock is hard while feathers are soft. In Genesis 1:18 of the KJV of the bible it is says, “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” This was the first example that came to my mind after reading Nietzsche’s writing, because even though this is a religious text and he is not religious, it exemplifies what he is trying to convey. We as people do not truly understand the thing we can only define it as we see fit. Thus making the fundamentals of our language and truths to be lies. Our language, as the professor said, does not mirror an object. I find instead that it simply just illustrates what we believe it to be. Describing and labeling a thing is as if you drew an object. No matter how much you may recreate the image the image will not truly reflect the object. It will in the end only help us understand what we think that object is or should be. It is through repetition and forced habits that we have developed the fundamentals of our language and cognition. And because of this repetition we have forgotten that it is also we who has created and defined what we call the truth.