Should you follow heart or reason? Go where your heart takes you, we've all heard that. i certainly don't do much of that. I go where my head takes me, i.e. all the wrong places. In the Big Chill, JG tells us that rationalisation is more important than sex: we can go for days without sex but not even a few hours without rationalising. But defending the concept that the truth is whatever you can argue more forcefully, a few centuries before mr BP gave us one of those little pearls of wisdom, a quote, a little cheesy by today's standards, but nevertheless something that from my teen-age years has sort of offered me an escape route, an alternative way and hinted to the existence of something that can't be fully grasped and rightfully so. Le cœur a des raisons que la raison ne connaît point - the heart has reasons that the reason doesn't know. Can that really be true?
Thursday, June 29, 2006
the truth
Should you follow heart or reason? Go where your heart takes you, we've all heard that. i certainly don't do much of that. I go where my head takes me, i.e. all the wrong places. In the Big Chill, JG tells us that rationalisation is more important than sex: we can go for days without sex but not even a few hours without rationalising. But defending the concept that the truth is whatever you can argue more forcefully, a few centuries before mr BP gave us one of those little pearls of wisdom, a quote, a little cheesy by today's standards, but nevertheless something that from my teen-age years has sort of offered me an escape route, an alternative way and hinted to the existence of something that can't be fully grasped and rightfully so. Le cœur a des raisons que la raison ne connaît point - the heart has reasons that the reason doesn't know. Can that really be true?
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