(Originally written July 27, 2007 in Book 16)
Beyond Good & Evil
4.
It is not that the falseness of these judgments constitute an objection to them. Because these judgments, though false, may be necessary to sustaining life as we know it.
"To recognize untruth as a condition of life- that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way, and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil" (Nietzsche, 202).
5.
What is worst about philosophers is not their childish mistakes, but their lack of honesty in work.
The mystic is much more honest.
6.
The "drive for knowledge" is not the father of philosophy. Some other drive has employed understanding as a means to some end.
The philosopher contains nothing that is impersonal. It is his morality that bears witness to who he is.
7.
Epicurus claimed that all philosophers are actors and skilled of an art he was not for this reason he hated them.
8.
There is a point when every philosopher's conviction comes to the stage.
9.
The pride of philosophers is what leads them to set out rules of nature. They wish to impose their own morality or the world.
Philosophy always creates the world in its own image and cannot do otherwise.
"Philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, 'to the creation of the world', to the causa prima" (Nietzsche, 206).
10.
The metaphysician may prefer only a handful of certainty to a whole lot of "beautiful possibilities".
Holding onto a few certainties in lieu of embracing possibilities is nihilism.
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