From George Berkeley: “Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves–that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
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Quote of the day 06/17/24
From Zhuangzi: “Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
Quote of the day 03/16/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
Quote of the day 03/05/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Quote of the day 02/20/24
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
Quote of the day 02/12/24
From Johann Wolfgang vonn Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Quote of the day 01/30/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Quote of the day 01/20/24
From John Locke: “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
Quote of the day 01/10/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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