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"For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it."
"The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable."
"We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error."
"Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself."
"Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends."
"No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge."
"No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes."
"Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man."
"We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on."
"Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal."
"The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it."
"Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies."
"Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment."
"He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not."
"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."
"I do not know is a phrase which becomes us."
"a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done."
"If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true."
"Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment."
"There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read."
