"*Suspicion of scientific men*.

"*Suspicion of scientific men*. Out of the consciousness of their truth, both suspect truth in the naive form of scientific knowledge. They do not doubt the methodological correctness of scientific insight. But Kierkegaard was astonished at the learned professors; they live for the most part with science and die with the idea that it will continue, and would like to live longer that they might, in a line of direct progress, always understand more and more. They do not experience the maturity of that critical point where everything turns upside down, where one understands more and more that there is something which one cannot understand. Kierkegaard thought the most frightful way to live was to bewitch the whole world through one's discoveries and cleverness--to explain the whole of nature and not understand oneself. Nietzsche is inexhaustible in destructive analyses of types of scholars, who have no genuine sense of their own activity, who can not be themselves, who, with their ultimately futile knowledge, aspire to grasp Being itself."

--Karl Jaspers, from_Kierkegaard and Nietzsche_, Walter Kaufmann_Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre_