Famous Quotes | A vocation makes us unthinking;...
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw when commonplace doubts and cares assail us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 327, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Human, All-Too-Human, part I, Helen Zimmern, in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 6, pp. 365-366, ed. Oscar Levy, New York, Russell and Russell (1964). Human, All-Too-Human, “Man Alone With Himself,” aphorism 537, “The Value of a Profession,” (1878).
Categories: Classical Scholar, Critic Of Culture, Philosopher, Thoughtlessness, Vocation
