Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Interpretation
Excessive pleasure distracts people from deeper thinking.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes how the pursuit of trivial pleasures can hinder serious contemplation and intellectual growth. He likens society's craving for amusement to a child's desire for meaningless toys, suggesting that such distractions can lead to a neglect of profound and meaningful thought.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of deep thinking in education.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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