Saturday, March 21, 2009

Letting the Book Reveal Its Own Thoughts

For he is the best student who does not read his thoughts into the book, but lets it reveal its own; who draws from it its sense, and does not import his own into it, nor force upon its words a meaning which he had determined was the right one before he opened its pages.

St. Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, 1.18