QuoteQuest“Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without “taste,” at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.”
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- Wikiquote: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), as translated by Marianne Cowan (1962), p. 43
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Friedrich Nietzsche. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
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