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?