"Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction."
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"Not to know is the beginning of wisdom."
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"The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master."
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"The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge."
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"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
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"Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command."
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"Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God."
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"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."
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"We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is."
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"The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose."
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"That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves."
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"The goal is to know how not-to-know."
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"The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment."
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"In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts."
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"Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience."
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"It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned."
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"If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself."
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"Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?"
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"The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it."
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"For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence."
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