Macmillan

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
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below
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"frogperspectives," as it were, to borrow an expression
current among painters Ịn spiteof all the value which
may belongto the true,the positive, and the unselfish, it
might be possiblethat a higherand more fimdamental value
for lifegenerallyshould be assignedto pretence țo the will
to delusionțo selfishness, and cupidity.It might even be
possiblethat what constitutes the value of those good and
respectedthings,consists precisely in their beinginsidiously
related,knotted,and crocheted to these evil and apparently
"
opposed things perhapseven
in beingessentially identical
with them. Perhaps! But who wishes to concern himself
with such dangerous"Perhapses"! For that investigation
one must await the advent of a new order of philosophers,
such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the reverse
"
^philosophers of the dangerous
of those hitherto prevalent
"Perhaps"in every sense of the term. And to speakin all
seriousness, I see such new philosophers beginningto appear.
Having kept a sharpeye on philosophers, and havingread
between their lines longenough,I now say to myselfthat the
greaterpart of conscious thinking must be counted amongst
and it is so even m the case of philosophic
the instinctivefunctions,
thinking;one has here to learn anew, as one learned
anew about heredityand "innateness." As little as the act
of birth comes into considerationin the whole process and
procedureof heredity,justas
littleis "being-conscious" opposed
to the instinctivein any decisive sense; the greater
part of the conscious thinkingof a philosopher is secretly in-
by his instincts, and forced into definite channels.
And behind all logicand its seemingsovereignty of movement,
there are valuations, or to speakmore plainly, physio-
fluence