The Well-Educated Mind

who is seeking to know himself, should be ever seeking himself in external things, and by so doing will he be best able to find, and explore his inmost light

Alas, no one among mortals is free; for either he is the slave of wealth or fortune, or else the populace or legal technicalities compel him to resort to practices that are contrary to his belief.”

“To be informed,” Adler writes in How to Read a Book, “is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.”

Engage not the mind in the intense pursuit of too many things at once,” Isaac