....here’s what Nietzsche has to say about it. In “Beyond Good & Evil” Nietzsche writes, of philosophers, “They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic (as opposed to the mystics of every rank, who are more honest and doltish—and talk of “inspiration”); while at bottom is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of “inspiration”—most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract—that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”
― ragruijters (reinier gruijters), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)