Much of formal education loads us with abstract knowledge, yet reality has to be felt and abstract knowledge gives no feeling. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin explains:
I tell you; even though like the Sage of sages, you carried in your memory the image of all the beings that peopled the earth or swim in the seas, still all that knowledge would be as nothing for your soul, for all abstract knowledge is a faded reality; this is because to understand the world, knowledge is not enough, you must see it, touch it, live in its presence and drink the vital heat of existence in the very heart of reality.
(Quoted from page 27 of The Way to Write, by John Fairfax and John Moat. St. Martin’s Press, 1981.)
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