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Single Idea 14839

[from 'Human, All Too Human' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles ]

Full Idea

Interest in education will gain great strength only at the moment when belief in a God and his loving care is given up.

Gist of Idea

Interest in education gains strength when we lose interest in God

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 242)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.149


A Reaction

This remark may well sum up the motivation of my entire life. What effect would it have had if I had read it when I was twenty?