Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted | cakeordeathsite
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As for me, well, I have Gone to Persia.
William S. Burroughs Attributed by legend to the Old Man of the Mountain, the leader of the Nizari Isma’ilites and the founder of the Order of Assassins ( Hashshashin ), Hassan-i-Sabbah, the line ‘ Nothing is true, everything is permitted ‘, is first found in print in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals , and was later taken up in a book entitled Le Grand Maître des Assassins by Betty Bouthoul, where it was discovered by the hit-man for the Apocalypse, William S. Burroughs, who was very fond of quoting it. From there it has infiltrated into popular culture, via movie
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