"I thought that it was necessary for me first of all to try to establish some there and that, this being the most important thing in the world, and the thing in which hasty judgment and prejudice were most to feared, I should not try to accomplish that objective until I had reached a much more mature age than that of merely twenty three..."
I think this goes for a lot of things in life. We shouldn't start to try and figure out things at a immature age. At a young age our minds are still developing our full opinions and judgments on any matter. Think about it, is your mindset still the same as it was in your middle school days? Same goes for "D" trying to figure out the truth in all the information he has put into his mind over the years.
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I agree. There is so much to learn throughout life that it is impossible to know everything. You have to take small steps to build up to it, and as you mature your mind and knowledge will also. This goes back to one of the four rules Descartes set for himself.
i agree with rosies comment
but at the same time, i think it's necessary to constantly be questioning and growing. although D didn't know everything and understand the world at 23 he was able to find truth in the things he did know. I don't think its so much that you shouldn't figure it all out until you're older, it's that you must constantly be searching... question everything you come across until eventually in adulthood you'll have some actual perspective on the world.
That is a good point to bring up Michael Douglas. It is def necessary to be always questioning and trying to figure what everything means when we are growing up. Eventually when you get older, you will start to understand the things you learned and figure out whether it is true or not. In all reality, everyday we learn and figure out new things. People that are 90 years old, still don't know everything or get why things are how they are.
But if you're able to question anything your taught through out your life, you stand a better chance at actually understanding when you're 90 because you've been searching the whole time. Although its obviously impossible to know things within the grand scheme, like how and why things happen, personal understanding should continuously be built. Not sought after as an attempt to finally come to terms with your life.
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