In his short essay “Myth Became Fact” C.S. Lewis makes some brilliant points when he discusses the choice man must make in whether to know or to experience. I do not understand in my own life which of these is more valuable. It could be argued that perhaps you know what you’ve experienced but as Lewis implies in his essay; you only really know of it. You may remember the delicious taste of a fruit, but unless that fruit is on your tongue, then you cannot taste it. Does this mean we take what we have for granted? Maybe; but the largest dilemma I see here is the one of making the choice; is knowing or feeling more important? I crave knowledge, yet (to put this in a more religious atmosphere) I have felt things that I don’t understand before, and it is those moments that motivate my pursuit of knowledge. I say these things are impossible, but I believe that is only because we want them to be. There are moments when we feeling and knowledge come to be one. And it is these moments that are what keeps us interested in both.
Aaron Stein
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