Where did nothing is true everything is permitted come from?



The phrase "nothing is true; everything is permitted" was taken from the novel Alamut, a book that served as a primary inspiration for Assassin's Creed. The highest truth of the Ismaili, the sect of Islam that gave rise to the historical Hashashin, was the maxim.

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