The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: pedantry

Montaigne 1.25

3 July 2015, around 15.22.

We labour but to cram our memory, and leave the understanding and the conscience empty. Even as the birds sometimes fly in search of grain, and bring it in their beaks without tasting it, to feed their young, so do our pedants go picking knowledge out of books, carrying it at the end of their […]

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