“All philosophers have the common failing of starting out from man as he is now and thinking they can reach their goal through an analysis of him. […] The whole of teleology is constructed by speaking of the man of the last four millennia as of an eternal man towards whom all things in the world have had a natural relationship from the time he began. But everything has become: there are no eternal facts, just as there are no absolute truths. Consequently what is needed from now on is historical philosophizing, and with it the virtue of modesty.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 2