Jul 3, 2021
2 min read
Life Beyond the Horizon
A Note on Myopia
“William James observed that wisdom was learning what to overlook. Prince Hamlet is the most intelligent of literary characters, but by James’s pragmatic test the doom-eager Shakespearean charismatic is anything but wise. Hamlet can overlook nothing, and so sets the pattern for all who can illuminate wisdom yet cannot themselves embody it.”
