pursuit

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

-Aristotle

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

-Bellow, Saul

Pour ce qu'alors je de¤  sirais vaquer seulement a'   la recherche de la ve¤  rite¤ ,  je pensai qu'il fallait que je†rejetasse comme absolument faux tout ce en quoi je pourrais imaginer le moindre doute, afin de voir s'il ne resterait point, apre'  s cela, quelque chose en ma cre¤  ance qui f u" t entie'  rement indubitable. Sincemy present aimwastogivemyself up tothepursuit of truth alone, I thought I must†reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine the least doubt, in order to see if I should not be left at the end believing something that was absolutely indubitable.

-Descartes, Rene¤

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