Precept and Practice

BETTER one life-master than a thousand reading-masters (nötiger wäre ein Lebemeister denne tausend Lesemeister). If I sought a master in the scriptures, I should seek him in Paris and in the high schools of high learning. But if I wished to ask questions about the perfect life, that he could not tell me. Where then must I go? Nowhere at all save to an utterly simple nature; he could answer my question. (599)