Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no deep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 1, p. 393, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Schopenhauer as Educator, p. 71, trans. by James W. Hillesheim and Malcolm R. Simpson, Chicago, Gateway Editions (1965). Schopenhauer as Educator, section 6 (1874).
The German word Wissenschaft which is here translated as “scholarship” might also be translated as “science.”
