807. One who loves only memorized facts and considers them to be wisdom, going by the rule that a person is the wiser, the more he has stored in his memory, has a kind of callus enveloping his thought, as said before [771]. When this callus is removed, he laments, thinking he has lost his whole life, and that there is nothing left; but as it seemed to me, he then for the first time is in a state where he can be perfected. And the reason it seemed that way to me was, I think, that he also had, inwardly, some goodness, so that some goodness sweated through. 1748, 16 February.