Saturday, January 10, 2015

Nothing So Terrible

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This alone is nearly too cryptic to be of too much use.  In the context of my recent posts, however, it provides a necessary counter-point to what might appear to be an appeal to action just for its own sake (though, in some cases, that may be a sufficient appeal).  We live in a busy world with too much activity, frankly, and too little thought.  So, this strikes me as a healthy addition to the idea of the value and need for action.