The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
Interpretation
Reason and critical thinking are skills that everyone can use, not just experts.
This quote emphasizes the importance of reason and logical thinking as tools that are not limited to specialists or professionals. It suggests that every individual has the capacity to engage with and apply rational thought in various aspects of life, making it a universal skill that can benefit society as a whole.
In practice
In a debate, one might quote this to emphasize the value of reasoned arguments accessible to all participants.
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Every desire of your body is holy;_x000D_ _x000D_ Every desire of your body is_x000D_ _x000D_ Holy.
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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