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I set a few skeptics aside, the decent type in the history of philosophy: but the rest do not know the first demands of intellectual integrity. They all do it like the little women, all these great enthusiasts and marvels, - they hold "beautiful feelings" to be arguments already, the "heaving bosom" to be a bellows for the divinity, conviction to be a criterion of truth. Finally, Kant, in "German" innocence, has even attempted to make this form of corruption, this lack of intellectual conscience, scientific under the term "practical reason": he invented a reason specifically for this, in which case one does not have to worry about reason, namely when morality, when the sublime demand "thou shalt" sounds out. If one considers that, among almost all peoples, the philosopher is only the further development of the priestly type, then this heirloom of the priest, the counterfeiting before oneself, no longer surprises. If one has holy tasks, for example, to improve, to save, to redeem mankind, if one carries the divinity in one's bosom, is a mouthpiece of otherworldly imperatives, then with such a mission one already stands outside all purely rational evaluations, - already sanctified oneself by such a task, already the type of a higher order! ... What does science matter to a priest! He stands too high for it! - And the priest has ruled until now! He determined the concept of "true" and "untrue"! ...

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