The peculiarly etherealised abstraction of philosophers, with their negation of the world, their enmity to life, their disbelief in the senses, which has been maintained up to the most recent time, and has almost thereby come to be accepted as the ideal philosophic attitude-this abstraction is the result of those enforced conditions under which philosophy came into existence, and continued to exist;
Filosofoen jarrera aldendua, mundua bereziki ukatzen duen jarrera, bizitzarekiko etsaikorra, zentzumenekiko sinesgogorra, desentsualdua, azken garaiotara arte mantendu dena eta horregatik bere baitako filosofo-jarrera gisa ia balio izan duena,-jarrera hori batez ere filosofia oro har jaio eta bizi izan zen baldintzen eskastasunaren ondorio bat da: