It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.


The Plain Speaker (1826)

William Hazlitt Quotes

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question...

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question...

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question...

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question...