It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Reuben Abel was writer and editor of the Humanistic Pragmatist. Abel authored Man is the Measure. Here he discusses many different angles of philosophy on many different, but connected topics.
