“The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche. When I tell people that Nietzsche and Kierkegaard share more than you might think (and with Wittgenstein, too), it is their anti-Hegelianism that I am recalling. Intellectualizing, as in the post below (which is both true and bullshit), relies on systematization of thought; systematization is falsification inasmuch as it reduces the individual to an iteration of theory.
I dislike the “will to a system,” the construction of subordinating frameworks of theory and values which subsume the individual beneath logical forms. Systems of thought are alienating and dry because they ignore us, our hope and pain and love and fear and courage. This is why novels are better than books of philosophy, in my view.
