Quotes About Knowledge

In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica- seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.

We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves. Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon-this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing.

Pentru un tân?r ambiÅ£ios, nu exist? nenorocire mai mare decât frecventarea unor buni cunosc?tori ai firii omeneÅŸti. Eu însumi am frecventat trei sau patru: la dou?zeci de ani, eram terminat.

celui que ne connaît point l'ennui se trouve encore à l'enfance du monde, où les âges attendaient de naître

el budismo te permite acceder a una religión sin tener fe. El budismo es una religión que tan sólo propugna el conocimiento. Te enseña que no somos sino compuestos, que esos compuestos se disuelven, que no tienen realidad, te demuestra tu irrealidad y después te dice: ahora, saca las consecuencias.

Se poate prevedea destinul unui om, dar nu cel al unei c?r?i.

Mientras le preparaban la cicuta, Sócrates aprendía un aria para flauta. '¿De qué te va a servir?', le preguntaron. 'Para saberla antes de morir'.

A philosopher is saved from mediocrity only by skepticism or mystique, these two forms of despair in the front of knowledge. Mystique is an escape from knowledge, and skepticism is knowledge without hope. In both kinds world is not a solution.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I have tried to be faithful to my knowledge, to force my instincts to yield, and realized that it is no use wielding the weapons of nothingness if you cannot turn them against yourself.

La scienza è l'elusione della saggezza in nome della conoscenza del mondo.

We should keep to a single language, and deepen our knowledge of it at every opportunity. For a writer, gossiping with a concierge in his own is much more profitable than arguing with a scholar in a foreign tongue.

Knowledge – if it is profound – never changes: only its décor varies. Love continues without Venus, was without Mars, and if the gods no longer intervene in events, those events are neither more explicable nor less disconcerting: the paraphernalia of formulas merely replaces the pomp of the old legends, without the constants of human life being thereby modified, science apprehending them no more intimately than poetic narratives.

Have you suffered for knowledge?

Entirely independent of our intellectual system, death, like every individual experience, can be confronted only by knowledge without information

I knew nothingness by heart, and I accepted my knowledge.

On devrait s'en tenir à un seul idiome, et en approfondir lamconnaissance à chaque occasion. Pour un écrivain, bavarder avec une concierge est bien plus profitable que s'entretenir avec un savant dans une langue étrangère.

We can act only against the truth. Man starts over again every day, in spite of everything he knows, against everything he knows.

To know, in vulgar terms, is to get over something: to know, in absolute terms, is to get over everything. Illumination represents one further step: the certainty that henceforth we will never again be taken in, a last glance at illusion.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Nihil est in intellectu quod non ante fuerit in sensu

The progress of a science is proven by the progress toward solution of the problems it treats.