I know all this perhaps too much from experience at close quarters-that dignified philosophic abstinence to which a belief like that binds its adherents, that stoicism of the intellect, which eventually vetoes negation as rigidly as it does affirmation, that wish for standing still in front of the actual, the factum brutum, that fatalism in "petits faits" (ce petit faitalism, as I call it), in which French Science now attempts a kind of moral superiority over German, this renunciation of interpretation generally (that is, of forcing, doctoring, abridging, omitting, suppressing, inventing, falsifying, and all the other essential attributes of interpretation)-all this, considered broadly, expresses the asceticism of virtue, quite as efficiently as does any repudiation of the senses (it is at bottom only a modus of that repudiation.) But what forces it into that unqualified will for truth is the faith in the ascetic ideal itself, even though it take the form of its unconscious imperatives,-make no mistake about it, it is the faith, I repeat, in a metaphysical value, an intrinsic value of truth, of a character which is only warranted and guaranteed in this ideal (it stands and falls with that ideal).
Nik hori guztia agian hurbilegitik ezagutzen dut filosofo-kontinentzia laudagarri hura, zeinera sinesmen horrek behartzen baitu, endelguaren estoizismo hura, zeinak azkenerako hain zorrotz debekatzen baitu baietza zein ezetza, errealaren aurrean gelditu-nahi izate hura, factum brutum-aren [gertakari gordin] aurrean, "petits faits" en [gertakari txikiak] fatalismo hura (ce petit faitalisme, nik deitzen dudanez), zeinean frantses zientziak orain bilatzen baitu alemanaren gain nagusitasun moral gisako bat, interpretazioari erabat uko egite hura (bortxatu, birdoitu, berrebaki, ezabatu, birbete, imajinatu, faltsutu, eta interpretatzearen esentziakoa den gainerako guztiari)-hori da, larriki hitz eginez nola bertutearen aszetismo baten hala sentsualitatearen ukapenaren adierazpen bat (barrenean, ukapen horren modus bat besterik ez da).