High-sounding positivism, whenever it ceases to deny and begins to affirm something, whenever it becomes really positive, is nothing but metaphysics; and metaphysics, in its essence, is always theology, and theology is born of imagination yoked to the service of life, of life with its craving for immortality.
Zorioneko positibismo hori metafisika besterik ez da, ukatzeari utzi eta zerbait baieztatzen hasten denean, egiazki positibo bihurtzen denean, eta metafisika beti ere, bere funtsean, teologia da, eta teologia, hilezina izan nahi duen bizitzaren zerbitzuan jarririko fantasiatik jaiotzen da.