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# Charity and Skepticism
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/30293/
- Published: 2013-11-12T08:07:55.000Z
- Updated: 2013-11-12T08:07:55.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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"True freedom comes only to a lucid mind unbound by conventional wisdom and suspicious of received opinions."

That's Joseph Epstein, writing about Santayana in *Essays in Biography*. It's a great aphorism. It reminds of GKC's observation that only dead things swim with the current, but that live things kicks against it.

I realized a few years ago that I'm pretty impressionable. It's a nice trait in some ways, but overall, it's the trait of a weak mind and one that instills a level of intellectual servitude. I've slowly replaced it with a sense of skepticism, which I far prefer. Even though the skeptic is often a bastard, if you strive to combine it with love, you can curb its richard-ness tendency.

Then again, any trait combined with charity curbs its blunt edges.