It’s been a while, but exams can do that to you – I’ve been logging some of my thoughts as drafts, so you might see quite a few posts in the coming days as they actually make it to the stage of being published! In light of that the title of this post isn’t quite accurate where is says Today read: approximately 3 weeks ago!
Quotes are fantastic, I love quotes. On my iGoogle home page I have a quote of the day and most of them are pretty good. Not long ago, this was the quote that appeared:
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes
I read it, then re-read it and then pasted it here to blog about it! I think, at least in my life, it is very true. To give a basic example, your sitting at the dinner table and the person who cooked the meal puts down a dish and says “Careful, the dish is hot.” Following this statement two different people proceed to touch this dish and both follow with an exclamation along the lines of “Ow! That is hot.”
I see two options, either the people wanted to burn themselves (which is doubtful) or, albeit with good intentions, they didn’t fully believe that the dish was hot.
I think it is human nature to doubt, but I think we only want to doubt safe things. I don’t think we want to doubt deep important issues, probably because we know that it will lead us to the truth and to some extent we are afraid of the truth. I think if the quote (yes, another one) “You want the truth?You can’t handle the truth!” or “The truth hurts.”
I’m not entirely sure of the point of this post, but I take two main things out of it. If you really want to know the truth you need to doubt, however in doing this be prepared to discover the truth, though the truth may not always be want you want to hear. I think this quote is very true and can be applied in almost all aspects of life.
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