[lit-ideas] Re: Hidden thinking
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:52:54 +0100
But of course, the paradox is that we are also thinking someone's else's
thoughts, now. :)
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An astute observation, which reminds of my postgraduate days when I was
> reading a lot but probably thinking little. It also reminds me that I still
> need to read the second volume of the The World as Will and Idea. It is
> planned for this winter, if the circumstances permit.
>
> O.K.
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> " When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental
>> process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with
>> his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in
>> reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This
>> is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being
>> occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however,
>> really only the arena of some one else's thoughts. And so it happens that
>> the person who reads a great deal--that is to say, almost the whole day,
>> and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion,
>> gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is
>> always riding at last forgets how to walk."
>> Arthur Schopenhauer.
>>
>> Happy returns
>>
>> TF
>>
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