Uneris 饕餮姐姐 on Nostr: "Just as the Romans and Etruscans carved up the sky with rigid mathematical lines, ...

"Just as the Romans and Etruscans carved up the sky with rigid mathematical lines, installing a god in each circumscribed space as in a templum, so, too, every people has above it just such a mathematically divided heaven of concepts and understands the demand of truth to mean that each concept god is to be found only in its own sphere. In this, one may well admire man as a a great architectural genius who manages to erect an infinitely complicated cathedral of concepts on shifting foundations and flowing water.. Of course, in order to rest on such foundations, it must be a structure made as if of spiderwebs, delicate enough to be carried away by the waves, firm enough not to be blown apart by the wind. Measured thus, man as architectural genius far surpasses the bee: the latter builds with wax, which it gathers from nature; man builds with the much more delicate material of concepts, which he must first fabricate out of himself. In this, he is to be admired—but not on account of his drive to truth, to the pure cognition of things. If someone hides a thing behind a bush, then looks for it and finds it again in the same place, the seeking and finding are not much to brag about; yet this is how matters stand with the seeking and finding of "truth" in the realm of reason."
— Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in a Nonmoral Sense

I hate that Nietzche is my only ally among the philosophers, because he's such a massive dickhead lol. beautiful prose though