Nietzsche on the pathology of reason
Twilight of the Idols Ð
ÒYou ask me about the
idiosyncrasies of philosophers? ... There is their lack of historical sense, their hatred of even the
idea of becoming, their Egyptianism. They think they are doing a thing honor when they
remove it from history, sub specie aeterni Ð when they make a mummy of it. All that
philosophers have handled for millennia are these conceptual mummies: nothing actual
has escaped from their hands alive. ...Ó