In the modern world there is hardly any leisure, not because men work harder than they did, but because their pleasures have become as strenuous as their work. The result is that, while cleverness has increased, wisdom has decreased because no one has time for the slow thoughts out of which wisdom, drop by drop, is distilled.
Source: The decay of meditation (written in Nov. 7, 1931 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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