Nietzsche on the pathology of reason

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