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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Bruce
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1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the
famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect,
what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing,
questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly
commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn
impatiently away? That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves?
WHO is it really that puts questions to us here? WHAT really is this "Will to Truth"
in us? In fact we made a long halt at the question as to the origin of this Will–until
at last we came to an absolute standstill before a yet more fundamental question.
We inquired about the VALUE of this Will. Granted that we want the truth: WHY
NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the
value of truth presented itself before us–or was it we who presented ourselves before
the problem? Which of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to
be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed
that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if
we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is
risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.