Wieviel Wahrheit braucht der Mensch? Über das Denkbare und das Lebbare () is a book by the German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski, published in 1990 by Carl Hanser Verlag. Summary. The book is an examination of the search for truth. It covers subjects such as the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche, conflicts between conceived truth and reality, and metaphysics, where truth is located separately from the world.