#256

“(...) in this fashion, in this absolute devotion to logical rigour, the Western world has won its achievments, – and with the same thoroughness, the absolute thoroughness that abrogates itself, must it eventually advance ad absurdum:

war is war, l'art pour l'art, in politics there's no room for compunction, business is business, – all these appertain to the same aggressive and radical spirit, informed by that uncanny, I might almost say that metaphysical, lack of consideration for consequences, that ruthless logic directed on the object and on the object alone, which looks neither to the right nor to the left; and this, all this, is the style of thinking that characterizes our age” (id, 446).