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“The Greek word which designates the Sage belongs etymologically to sapio, I taste, sapiens, the tasting one, sisyphos, the man of the most delicate taste;
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Science without thus selecting, without such delicate taste, pounces upon everything knowable, in the blind covetousness to know all at any price; philosophical thinking however is always on the track of the things worth knowing, on the track of the great and most important discernments. ”
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"That is great," she says, and therewith she raises man above the blind, untamed covetousness of his thirst for knowledge.”

--- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. “Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays / Collected Works, Volume Two.”