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  • 13/04/2018

    (Isaiah)Berlin had learned that if you studied them with philosophical intent, certain second-rate minds grappling with first-rate problems could teach you more than first-rate minds lost in the shrubbery. (Another reason, perhaps, that he abandoned analytic philosophy.).

    Mark Lilla in the NYRB

    Which for some reason reminds me of a quote from the Economist:

    Professors fixated on crawling alone the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.