Philosophy is the inevitable future of humanity. The present is _ techne_, in other words the totality of activities through which man removes more and more pain and limitation. “Science” (which is the most powerful instrument that techne possesses today) has achieved results because of the abandonment of the ancient category of episteme, in a word, the renunciation of the position of being absolute and irreversible truth. Today, “science” may have not only the aim of constructing—I emphasize, constructing—man, but it may also have the aim of removing from man any kind of limitation, and even of constructing God, which in other times was taken as something to be contemplated with worship.

But precisely because “science” has renounced being truth, any degree of perfection and happiness toward which it claims to lead man cannot be lived except as something unstable, which can be lost at any moment. The more desirable that life which techne can build, the more unsatisfying is every logic, possessed by techne, that is put to work with the aim of achieving perfection or at least stability of what has been built. Techne may remove from you any kind of limitation, but not that which consists in the doubt that everything you are or have can also be swallowed up by a nearby catastrophe. Only the logic of truth—I mean, only an absolute and irreversible answer—can remove the doubt. Precisely for this reason, philosophy is the future of man; who, when he arrives at the point of believing himself to be lord of being, will feel, through an impulse that has never before crossed him, the need to know the truth of this belief on his part, and consequently, what is most important, the need to know what truth is.