.....Take care, philosophers and friends, of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering for the truths sake! Even of defending yourselves! It spoils all the innocence and fine neutrality of your conscience; it makes you headstrong against objections and red rags; it stupefies, animalizes, and brutalizes when in the struggle with danger, slander, suspicion, expulsion, and even worse consequences of hostility, you have to pose as protectors of truth upon earth- as though the truth were such an innocuous and incompetent creature as to require protectors....... after all, you know well enough that it cannot be of any consequence if YOU of all people are proved right; you know that no philosopher so far has been proved right, and that there might be a more laudable truthfulness in every little question mark that you place after your special words and favorite doctrines....- Friedrich Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:15:32 +0000
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