About This Quote
The quote, “We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the pleasure wisdom brings us,” comes from the book From the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Pater. It’s often associated with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In the play, Shylock seems to be living for wisdom, even though he has no money to pay the money he owes to Antonio. But later in the play, he is shown to have lived for the pleasure wisdom brought him.
Source: The Engineer Of Human Souls
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