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Ideas for 'Pens��es', 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'Preface to 'Principles of Philosophy''

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

2892	Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to system is a lack of integrity.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], Maxim 26)

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

21962	Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes]
	Full Idea: The whole of philosophy is like a tree. The roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches emerging from the trunk are all the other sciences.
	From: René Descartes (Preface to 'Principles of Philosophy' [1647]), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 01.2
	A reaction: If Descartes had not believed this he would not have bothered with metaphysics, and philosophy might have been dead by 1650.