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623 | It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1074b11) |
20379 | Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Reason is a support organ that slowly develops itself, ...and emancipates itself slowly to equal rights with the organic drives - so that reason (belief and knowledge) fights with the drives, as itself a new drive, very late come to preponderance. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885], 9/11[243]), quoted by John Richardson - Nietzsche's System 4.3.2 n55 | |
A reaction: A very powerful and fascinating idea. There is a silly post-modern tendency to think that Nietzsche denegrates and trivialises reason because of remarks like this, but he takes ranking the drives to be the supreme activity. I rank reason high. |