Showing posts with label intellect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellect. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2010

Darwin Regrets Not Enjoying the Finer Things in Life

Excerpt from his autobiography:

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding the general laws out of large collections of facts. ..If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week...The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."