pontificate

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Once again just submitting to an observation as trenchant and cutting as Schopenhauer's, which can only be Schopenhauer's -

It is absolutely impossible for men of ordinary intelligence to make up their minds to write as they think; they resent the idea of their work looking too simple. it would always be of some value, however, if they would only go honestly to work and in a simple way express the few and ordinary ideas they have really thought. But instead they try to appear to have thought much more deeply than is the case. the result is, they put what they have to say into forced and involved language, create new words and prolix preiods which go round the thought and cover it up. They hesitate between the two attempts of communicating the thought and of concealing it. They want to make it look grand so that it has the appearance of being learned and profound, thereby giving one the idea that there is mych more in it than once perceives at the moment.

Never is it too late to realise.....