Words from the Wise
Today’s words from the wise is slightly more difficult to digest but I think an interesting tidbit of Nietzsche’s arguments regarding the bias or prejudice of philosophers.
“They [philosophers] all pose as though their real opinions had been discovered and attained through the self-evolving of a cold, pure, divinely indifferent dialectic…;whereas, in fact, a prejudiced proposition, idea, or ’suggestion,’ which is generally their heart’s desire abstracted and refined, is defended by them with arguments sought out after the event. They are all advocates who do not wish to be regarded as such, generally astute defenders, also, of their prejudices, which they dub ‘truths’”
-Friedrich Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Compendium: Beyond Good and Evil, pg 15-16
