Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Interpretation
Excessive pleasure distracts people from deeper thinking.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes how the pursuit of trivial pleasures can hinder serious contemplation and intellectual growth. He likens society's craving for amusement to a child's desire for meaningless toys, suggesting that such distractions can lead to a neglect of profound and meaningful thought.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of deep thinking in education.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
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After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
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We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow
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