For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonder...s thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its ...utility refutes it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for "truth": we "know" (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the in...terest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called "usefulness" is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »