holds true for a lot of people i know. ang galing ng tumblr na ‘to!
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
From The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
This quote basically demonstrates why Elegance is one of my favourite books.
…I think that ^ might have been a miss, but yes to the original quotation.
Nail, meet head.
people i know. ang galing ng tumblr na ‘to!