Citations:niaiserie


 * Behind all logic too and its apparent autonomy there stand evaluations, in plainer terms physiological demands for the preservation of a certain species of life. For example, that the definite shall be of greater value than the indefinite, appearance of less value than ‘truth’: but such evaluations as these could, their regulatory importance for us notwithstanding, be no more than foreground valuations, a certain species of niaiserie which may be necessary precisely for the preservation of beings such as us. ― Nietzsche (tr. Hollingdale), Beyond Good and Evil, 35