Where

[michaelboy]

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything.
The person of synthetic¹ or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I often wonder where I fall in that spectrum of intellect. I believe that perhaps Goethe's words were not meant as a laudatory statement of either, in the extreme.

but.......

I realize it has been far too easy for me to be overly critical of people and their expressions - enslaved by a quest to find imperfection or fault.

Bah.....I just don't want miss the good things.


¹ In my eyes, the term 'synthetic' used by Goethe isn't a reference to hipocrisy or 'fakeness' - rather to a quality of creative induction.