Truth will not give itself to us unless we are first rid of self and resolved that it shall suffice us. The intelligence which does not submit is in a state of skepticism, and the skeptic is ill-prepared for truth. Discovery is the result of sympathy; and sympathy is the gift of self.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
The Intellectual Life, #3
Even when reading "hostile" works, one must be willing to seek out the Truth that comes unbidden from them:
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