Sunday, June 27, 2010

Just a thought

Knowledge is not an abstract homogeneous good, of which there cannot be enough. Beyond the last flutter of actual or possible significance, pedantry begins.
Jacques Barzun

6 comments:

  1. I think I live "(b)eyond the last flutter of actual or possible significance"

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  2. I wondre if the pedantry starts earlier...

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  3. I always give much attention to Jacques Barzun. His style is so alive that I take everything he says personally. "Surely, you don't mean MOI, Monsieur Barzun?" Alas! I think I was born in a pedantic mood.

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  5. I tried to link to The Life of the Mind (Laudator Temporis Acti: June 29,2010). I missed again! It's an amusing quotation. :)

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  6. Calum,
    thus there are already two of us. :)

    Jams,
    possibly. Any example?

    Claudia,
    your confession makes it easier for me to admit: I have to fight my pedantry on a daily basis. By doing so I am trying to not being pedantic, though.

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