The Passionate Scholar

If an idea didn't incarnate itself in you and transform your perceptions and your actions, then you were merely possessed by the idea. Or you could say that the idea possessed you. You're a puppet for the idea. It's not you, it's the idea is in you and it has you. And so there's a romanticism that's associated with that. That's the passionate scholar,. The person for whom ideas are not merely what would you call abstracted representations that can be tossed about as if they're commodities. They're more like personalities....