WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Thoughts are worthless unless expressed and/or put
> into action.
I don't believe that's true, necessarily. Goya painted his greatest works--the black paintings--on some plaster walls in his house in Spain--they would have been lost forever if no one had found and restored them; Franz Kafka ordered his friend and executor of his estate, Max Brod, to burn all of his works upon his death (he didn't, of course, so we have pieces like his unfinished novel The Castle, which otherwise would never have been read); and wasn't it Emily Dickinson who wrote all those unnamed, numbered poems that were only discovered after she died? So, what is expression, really? The people I just mentioned 'expressed' themselves and their thoughts, but to who (pretending for a moment that history hadn't intervened and saved their works of art for posterity)?
You're right---Albert Einstein, for example, wouldn't have mattered much in history's eyes if he had never written anything down, and we're all richer for the fact that he did---but the man himself lived a more worthwhile life just for being curious and contemplating the universe and how it works, regardless of whether or not the world ever knew about it. It's very true, there's a danger in thinking too much and not acting, but it's better to think than to go through life not paying attention at all.
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