Martin Heidegger thought that the true test of a great mind was to hold one single thought in mind, for a whole day. But then he was weird.
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>Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
>
>> Steve Perry wrote:
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>> >the fitz observation you cite is, appropriately enough, from 'the crack-up.'
>>
>> Anyone have the exact wording?
>>
>> Doug
>
>"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
>opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
>ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see
>that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them
>otherwise."
>
> -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
> The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
>
>Chris
-- James Heartfield