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[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
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Full Idea
There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. For who knows for what purpose your body requires precisely your best wisdom?
Gist of Idea
But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.05)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.62
A Reaction
Lovely question. For years I've paid lip-service to wisdom as the rough aim of all philosophy. Not quite knowing what wisdom is doesn't bother me, but knowing why I want wisdom certainly does, especially after this idea.
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[doubts about the high status of wisdom]:
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Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age
[Plato]
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7893
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Our life is the creation of our mind
[Anon (Dham)]
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8766
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In much wisdom is much grief
[Anon (Ecc)]
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20815
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No wise man has yet been discovered
[Stoic school, by Cicero]
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6263
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No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air
[Montaigne]
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8093
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Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier
[Joubert]
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7170
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'Wisdom' attempts to get beyond perspectives, making it hostile to life
[Nietzsche]
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14890
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Suffering is the meaning of existence
[Nietzsche]
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But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
[Nietzsche]
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Wisdom is just the last gasp of a dying civilization
[Cioran]
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23064
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So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting
[Cioran]
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9764
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Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy
[Quine]
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9247
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Life will be lived better if it has no meaning
[Camus]
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3240
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There is more insight in fundamental perplexity about problems than in their supposed solutions
[Nagel]
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7490
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Because of Darwin, wisdom as a definite attainable state has faded
[Watson]
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The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled
[Whitcomb]
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