30-07-2020, 11:13 PM
To quote Cicero, who was very popular with the early 15th century humanist movement:
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
This quote illustrates the spiritual value of knowledge. Again this seems far from the purely functional vision of motivations of that time.
I am a little bewildered by the idea that the goal of "intellectual pleasure" was out of keeping with the times and just a modern way of thinking, which was alien to people then.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
This quote illustrates the spiritual value of knowledge. Again this seems far from the purely functional vision of motivations of that time.
I am a little bewildered by the idea that the goal of "intellectual pleasure" was out of keeping with the times and just a modern way of thinking, which was alien to people then.