• SalmiakDragon@feddit.nuEnglish
    7·
    1 天前

    Web searched it, and the quote from his speech “This is water” is actually

    Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth.

    Edit: The speech was a good read

    • DaniNatrix@leminal.space
      5·
      1 天前

      Thanks for the added context and providing a link for folks! It’s a decent commencement speech overall and I appreciate the attention he draws to the importance (and difficulty) of perspective in it. If anyone understood the “great and terrible truth” of the adage, it would be him.