July 4, 2012
It matters little to me whether someone says today with the modesty of philosophical skepticism or with religious submission: 'The essence of things is unknown to me,' or whether another, bolder man, who has not yet learned enough of criticism and mistrust, says: 'The essence of things is to a large extent unknown to me.' I maintain towards both of them that they certainly still pretend to know, or imagine they know, far too much, as if the distinction they both assume were justified: the distinction between an 'essence of things' and a world of appearances.
Nietzsche - Notes form the Late Notebooks
Posted by amin at July 4, 2012 1:41 PM