Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view.
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
The complex develops out of the simple.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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