This is because Collected Thoughts aims to stimulate your intellect and challenge your perspective, but it does not desire to indoctrinate you with any particular dogma, or lead you to believe that disagreement with some idea encountered here is a sign of error. I do not intend this website to be a storeplace of answers, but rather, I wish it to be a springboard of questions. Come away from Collected Thoughts with something to ponder, some wholly new idea to consider, and I will feel satisfied that this website is a worthy project. And he's quite serious, even if he says it with humor. I think it's a great answer because it reminds students who are so used to learning on a schedule, only at certain times, and only at someone else's command, that they need not wait for instructions in order to learn.
Every subject leads in some way to profound confusion.
So much thought, so much mental straining is required of us before we can see the first glimpses of comprehension, that, at times, one feels hurried, and very anxious. Contemplate the Universe, and you're likely to discover this anxiety, this intellectual agitation. A certain uneasiness, a restlessness of thought- even a frustration of spirit develops in a mind that ponders its existence and the circumstances of its being. They are fully aware that there is altogether too much to do, and too much to think about. If you have experienced this intellectual agitation that I speak of, then you probably have difficulty understanding how someone could complain of being bored, or of having no interests, or no motivations.