“Truth is commoner than articles of furniture. It cries out in the streets and does not turn its back on us when we turn our backs on it. Ideas emerge from facts; they also emerge from conversations, chance occurrences, theatres, visits, strolls, the most ordinary books… Learn to look… Do not see in a town merely houses, but human life and history. Let art gallery or a museum show you something more than a collection of objects, let it show you schools of art and of life, conceptions of destiny and of nature, successive or varied tendencies or technique, of inspiration, of feeling… Let travel tell you of mankind… A thinker is like a filter, in which truths as they pass through leave their best substance behind… The thinker is truly a thinker only if he finds in the least external stimulus the occasion of a limitless interior urge. It is his character to keep all his life the curiosity of childhood, to retain its vivacity of impression, its tendency to see everything under an aspect of mystery, its happy faculty of everywhere finding wonderment full of consequences.”
Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges in his ‘The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods‘
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