"The last thing in metaphysics we'll rid ourselves of is the oldest stock, assuming we can rid ourselves of it--that stock which has embodied itself in language and the grammatical categories and made itself so indispensable that it almost seems we would cease being able to think if we relinquished it. Philosophers, in particular, have the greatest difficulty in freeing themselves from the belief that the basic concepts and categories of reason belong without further ado to the realm of metaphysical certainties: from ancient times they have believed in reason as a piece of the metaphysical world itself--this oldest belief breaks out in them again and again like an overpowering recoil."
--F. Nietzsche, Notebook 6, summer 1886-spring 1887.
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