Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Wisdom of the Ages versus the Wisdom of the Moment


"If you have an earnest desire of attaining wisdom, prepare yourself from the first to be laughed at by the multitude, to hear them say, 'He does not covet what we covet, or seek what we hasten after and pursue, but he stands apart.' Do not mind such rejection, but keep steadily to those things which appear best to you…" 

(A.C. Grayling, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible via The School of Life)

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