To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Monday, October 10, 2011
Revisiting Pinker
A few days ago I wrote on this blog about Steven Pinker's latest book in which he discusses one of my favorite themes -- the progress of peace in the modern world. Here's the author himself talking about the book and its very important subject.
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