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It says something really important about Western European culture that the goal of philosophy is to try to define an objectivity so true that it is beyond fault.

“As easily, then, as men are taken in by any kind of superstition, it is just as difficult to make them stand firm in one and the same superstition. Indeed, because the common people always remain equally wretched, they are never satisfied for long, but are most pleased by what is new, and has not yet deceived them.”