As interpretations (_not_ as established facts)--and in what respect were they perhaps necessary interpretations? (as "preservative measures")--all in the sense of a Will to Power. 590. Our values are _interpreted into the heart_ of things. Is there, then, any _sense_ in the absolute? Is not sense necessarily _relative-sense_ and perspective? All sense is Will to Power (all relative senses may be identified with it). 591. The desire for "established facts"--Epistemology: how much pessimism there is in it! 592. The antagonism between the "true world," as pessimism depicts it, and a world in which it were possible to live--for this the rights of _truth_ must be tested. It is necessary to measure all these "ideal forces" according to the standard of life, in order to understand the nature of that antagonism: the struggle of sickly, desperate life, cleaving to a beyond, against healthier, more foolish, more false, richer, and fresher life. Thus it is not "truth" struggling with Life, but _one_ kind of Life with another kind.--But the former would fain be the _higher_ kind!--Here we must prove that some order of rank is necessary,--that the first problem is _the order of rank among kinds of Life._ 593. The belief, "It is _thus_ and _thus,_" must be altered into the will, "Thus and thus _shall it be._" _(m)_ Science. 594. Science hitherto has been a means of disposing of the confusion of things by hypotheses which "explain everything"--that is to say, it has been the result of the intellect's repugnance to chaos. This same repugnance takes hold of me when I contemplate _myself;_ I should like to form some kind of representation of my inner world for myself by means of a _scheme,_ and thus overcome intellectual confusion. Morality was a simplification of this sort: it taught man as _recognised,_ as _known,_--Now we have annihilated morality--we have once more grown _completely obscure_ to ourselves! I know that I know nothing _about myself. Physics_ shows itself to be a _boon_ for the mind: science (as the road to _knowledge_) acquires a new charm after morality has been laid aside--and _owing to the fact_ that we find consistency here alone, we must _order_ our lives in accordance with it so that it may help us to _preserve it. _ This results in a sort of _practical meditation_ concerning the _conditions of our existence_ as investigators. 595. Our first principles: no God: no purpose: limited energy. We will take good care to _avoid_ thinking out and prescribing the necessary lines of thought for the lower orders. 596. No "_moral_ education" of humanity: but the _disciplinary school of scientific errors_ is necessary, because truth disgusts and creates a dislike of life, provided a man is not already irrevocably launched upon his _way,_ and bears the consequences of his honest standpoint with tragic pride. 597.