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New. This work, reprinted many times over since its appearance in 1920, both instructs and ennobles. It treats of virtually every aspect of the life of the mind and the cultivation of the virtues and habits of life that are its prerequisites. Insofar, it instructs. Yet it does so in a manner that unfailingly awakens high aspiration. ''The life of study, '' writes Sertillanges, ''pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. Truth serves only its slave. '' This book is nothing less than an enchiridion for those who would pledge fealty to this most generous of taskmasters, and in so doing think God's thoughts after Him.
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This book was required reading material for a class I took. I could not be more pleased with a required piece of reading. This book gives excellent information about how to live - how to live an intellectual life. Sertillanges advises how to spend time - almost down to the very minute in order to maximize one's life for intellectual enrichment. There is so much good advise that it is a bit daunting to try to implement all at once. However, I am sure Sertillanges was aware of this difficulty and may have said some words about it (yet, since it has been a little over a year since I read it I cannot recall with certainty). If you invest the money in this book (which is not much), and if you faithfully give yourself over to his guidance, you shall be repaid 100-fold for your trouble. Even though I often sell books back at of a end of a class I would not part with this text - I am keeping it as a reference for how to best spend my limited time in life.
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Apr 26, 2007
An interesting manual
I read this book a number of years ago, and noticed that it had been reissued. It originally appeared in 1934. Admittedly it does show its age, in both style (which tends to be a bit, er, "floral") and its research advice (pre-computer). Nevertheless, I was not disappointed in re-reading it. Sertillanges is not of that hardheaded "How to Organize your Life and your Time" school, but directs himself to encouraging the intellectual life for its own sake -- a rare encouragement in a time, such as ours, in which knowledge is encouraged only insofar as it facilitates the acquisition of something other than the knowledge itself.