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“What good is intellectual life? It is a refuge from distress; a reminder of one’s dignity; a source of insight and understanding; a garden in which human aspiration is cultivated; a hollow of a wall to which one can temporarily withdraw from the current controversies to gain a broader perspective, to remind oneself of one’s universal human heritage. All this makes clear at the least that it is an essential good for human beings, even if one good among others.”

Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
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