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Quote for Wednesday, May 20th, 2009.

Their fashion of philosophizing, however, is well suited to persons whose abilities fall below mediocrity; for the obscurity of the distinctions and principles they use enables them to speak of all things with as much confidence as if they really knew them, and to defend all that they say on any subject against the most subtle and skillful, without its being possible for any one to convict them of error. In this they seem to me to be like a blind man, who, in order to fight on equal terms with a person who sees, makes the person descend to the bottom of an intensely dark cave.

René Descartes (1596-1650)

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