Seeker

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The seeker after the truth is not one who

studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition,

puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and

questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and

demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught

with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man, if

learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he

reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it

from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical

examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or

leniency.

 

Regards

Rohri