chapter 5 how we can unequivocally know that there is no god , or at least no anthropomorphized god , condign , now with the blue ink of the pen used up , i write interchangeably in black and red , for it is blood and darkness that makes a man philosophize , with successful discernment accomplishing little beyond making him see an outline of the savage in the sublimated conduct of modern man , as though in understanding , it could be altered , which of course it can not , and thus evincing philosophy to be bereft of all practical value .