Intellectual talk can be as bad as mundane trivial talk, an empty posturing, a vain showmanship without roots or results. But worst of all is ‘spiritual talk’ which can distract us from both action and (what is better) contemplative inaction.
Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains
Intellectual talk can be as bad as mundane trivial talk, an empty posturing, a vain showmanship without roots or results. But worst of all is ‘spiritual talk’ which can distract us from both action and (what is better) contemplative inaction.