Tuesday, December 31, 2013

 

Dilettantism

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (June 18, 1834):
Everything teaches, even dilettantism. The dilettante does not, to be sure, learn anything of botany by playing with his microscope, and with the terminology of plants, but he learns what dilettantism is; he distinguishes between what he knows and what he affects to know, and through some pain and self-accusation he is attaining to things themselves.



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