Saturday, March 6, 2010

Intellectual discipline

“Western literature is no more than a grand case of narcissistic personality disorder.”

“Yes! The same narcissistic personality disorder than led man to study science—Charcot!—Freud!”

“Don’t shout the names of dead while males to make your point.”

“My point is that without intellectual discipline, there is no way for anyone to study any science, including psychology.”

“So what? I have discipline.”

“Yes, but you need the vocabulary to talk about it. A mind in which discipline is never discussed is like a restaurant in which food is never discussed. The humanities is the menu of intellectual self-discipline. The mathematician has plenty of discipline, but lacks the vocabulary to describe it. He can only grunt when he wants more.”

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