Jesus preached. Samuel Johnson bullied. Carlyle fulminated. Bucky Fuller droned. Wittgenstein thought painfully aloud like a surgeon. But Socrates talked…hazardously, gaily, amorously, eloquently, religiously…he talked with wit, with passion, with honesty; he asked; he answered; he considered; he debated; he entertained; he made of his mind a boulevard before there was even a France.
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William Gass, Habitations of the Word
A nice reminder that by talking with others we should be aiming to learn as much as to convince.
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