[H]e approaches the classics without the apocalyptic vision of a culture warrior or the sort of popularizing sentiment that glibly reduces Aristotle to a self-help guru. The classics humble, as they ought to. Reflecting on the thousands of pages he has read in what might fairly be called an annus horribilis, Beha realizes that “all the knowledge in the world is small recompense for the things we can’t possibly know.”
via Alexander Nazaryan, ‘The Whole Five Feet – What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else,’ by Christopher R. Beha.
