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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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True words seem false.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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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.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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