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“I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish...”
“Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”
“Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be totally primitive and beastlike in your thoughts and feelings?”
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115”
“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a d...”
“Then we shant regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies”
“First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.”
“No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.”
“Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will kee...”
“Enough talk, now read!”
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through some...”
“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”
“Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.”
“The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has...”
“It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his t...”
“Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.”
