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 Reference
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.