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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“the belief which first came to light in the person of Socrates,--the belief in the fathomableness of nature and in knowledge as a panacea”
The Birth of Tragedy, §17, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
Nietzsche's definition of the spirit of science, whose limits must be reached before tragedy can be reborn.
Citation: "the belief which first came to light in the person of Socrates,--the belief in the fathomableness of nature and in knowledge as a panacea" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §17, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q13)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
