The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

“Nature doesn’t know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic—ridiculous—attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy. It’s as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence, called the result of these reflections ‘an eternal and mysterious conflict between head and root,’ and considered rain an unfathomable causative power. We, sorcerers, don’t waste time puzzling out what nature is. We know what it is; for we are nature ourselves. Do you understand?” “I’m trying to, but please talk more slowly. Don’t forget you’re talking to a cabbage.”