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Beyond Good and Evil
$9.22Add to cartSUPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for
suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have
failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy
importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have
been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has
never allowed herself to be won; and at present every kind of dogma stands with
sad and discouraged mien—IF, indeed, it stands at all! For there are scoffers who
maintain that it has fallen, that all dogma lies on the ground—nay more, that it is
at its last gasp. But to speak seriously, there are good grounds for hoping that all
dogmatizing in philosophy, whatever solemn, whatever conclusive and decided
airs it has assumed, may have been only a noble puerilism and tyronism; and
probably the time is at hand when it will be once and again understood WHAT
has actually sufficed for the basis of such imposing and absolute philosophical
edifices as the dogmatists have hitherto reared: perhaps some popular
superstition of immemorial time (such as the soul-superstition, which, in the
form of subject- and ego-superstition, has not yet ceased doing mischief):
perhaps some play upon words, a deception on the part of grammar, or an
audacious generalization of very restricted, very personal, very human—all-toohuman
facts.
