gwern comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 September 2011 07:44:47PM 9 points [-]

"Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself."

--Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872); cf. "Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism"