Saturday, March 4:
The difference between you and us is that you for your knowledge of the world are determined only by physiological interest, and we — by moral. The poet is presented with the moral world order, the scientist with the mechanical.
The Brown Book
Diary Entry of March 4, 1882
Overview
Wagner contrasts a moral approach to understanding the world with a physiological or mechanical one. He assigns the former to the poet and the latter to the scientist.