The Philosopher Has a Right to Bad Character

The belief in immediate certainties is a moral naivety, which does honour to us philosophers. Apart from morality, such belief is a folly which does little honour to us. The philosopher has, at length, a right to bad character as the being who has hitherto been most befooled on earth. He is now under obligation to distrustfulness and squinting out of every abyss of suspicion.