Mechanique Des Idees (La)

Hermes Paris Carre >> Spring – Summer 2004

Mechanical Ideas

The human brain is actually only a mechanism, a kind of mill, grinding the wheat of experience to create the flour of ideas. But its cogs are not so much those of a milling machine, as of intricate clockwork: when they go into action, it is to bring noon to everyone’s doorway. And so the debate of opinions flourishes, but leading where? To the joys of the spirit – doubtless less lively than those of the flesh, but how much deeper and more enduring! and perhaps, one ought to say, nobler.