tisdag 22 november 2011

Descartes on Truth by Light and learning

"A good man is not required to have read every book or diligently mastered everything taught in the Schools. It would, indeed, be a kind of defect in his education if he had spent too much time on book-learning."
Descartes, The Search For Truth By Means Of Natural Light
Well, my dear René, to pass the examination is the task today. Not the thinking. Or, perhaps, as Florence Welch captures the melancholy of the subject:

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