In opposition to Positivism, which halts at phenomena and says “There are only facts and nothing more”, I
would say: No, facts are precisely what is lacking; all that exists consists of interpretations. We cannot
establish any fact “in itself”: it may even be nonsense to desire to do such a thing. “Everything is subjective”,
you say; but that in itself is interpretation. The “subject” is nothing given, but something superimposed by
fancy, something introduced behind. – Is it necessary to set an interpreter behind the interpretation already
to hand? Even that would be fantasy, hypothesis. To the extent to which “knowledge” has any sense at all,
the world is knowable; but may be interpreted differently; it has not one sense behind it, but hundreds of
senses. – “Perspectivism”. It is our needs that interpret the world; our instincts and their impulses For and
Against. Every instinct is a sort of thirst for power; each one has its point of view, which it would fain impose
upon all the other instincts as their norm.