A Quote About Intellectual Life

“[W]e cannot lay down any absolute rule; but we must insist on this one thing: you must study yourself, consider what your life is, what it enables you to do, what it furthers or excludes, what of itself it suggests for the hours of intense activity… Avoid half-work more than anything. Do not imitate those people who sit long at their desks but let their minds wander. It is better to shorten the time and use it intensely, to increase its value, which is all that counts… You must not strain yourself to excess, but you must find your direction, aim at your goal, and put out of your field of vision, like the marksman, everything else but the target.”

_{Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges in his ‘The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods‘}

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