value of truth, of a character which is only warranted and guaranteed in this ideal (it stands and falls with that ideal). Judged strictly, there does not exist a science without its “hypotheses,” the thought of such a science is inconceivable, illogical: a philosophy, a faith, must always exist first to enable science to gain thereby a direction, a meaning, a limit and method, a right to existence. (He who holds a contrary opinion on the subject⁠—he, for example, who takes it upon himself to establish philosophy “upon a strictly scientific basis”⁠—has first got to “turn upside-down” not only philosophy but also truth itself⁠—the gravest insult which could possibly be offered to two such respectable females!) Yes, there is no doubt about it⁠—and here I quote my Joyful Wisdom , cp. Book V , Aph.