Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories