Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals

Seventy-Five Aphorisms

201 Philosophers’ error.-The philosopher supposes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the structure; but posterity finds its value in the stone which he used for building, and which is used many more times after that for building-better. Thus it finds the value in the fact that the structure can be destroyed and nevertheless retains value as building material.