Friedrich Nietzsche on Socrates
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“We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.”
“Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.”