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“Knowledge for its own sake”Mthat is the last snare that morality sets: here one gets all tangled up in it once again. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 85, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, “Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes,” section 64 (1886).

Categories: Classical Scholar, Critic Of Culture, Knowledge, Morality, Philosopher, Traps

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