"Scholars who at bottom do little nowadays but thumb books . . . ultimately lose entirely their capacity to think for themselves. When they don't thumb, they don't think. They respond to a stimulus (a thought they have read) whenever they think--in the end, they do nothing but react. Scholars spend all of their energies on saying Yes and No, on criticism of what others have thought--they themselves no longer think."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann (1908; New York: Vintage, 1967), 253.
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