Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
—Samuel Johnson
Dr. Johnson on intellectual vanity
2 February 2010 by Leave a Comment
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