"Is Buddhism a Theory of a Philosophy?"
What Buddhists Believe (1993)
“To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.”
Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Context: To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“Too many rules and too much predictability absolutely kill creativity.”
“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”
Source: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps