Quotes About Knowledge

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

Elämä ilman lukemista on vaarallista, silloin on pakko tyytyä elämiseen ja siinä on omat riskinsä.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

el origen primero de cualquier filosofía es la conciencia de una brecha, de una incertidumbre en nuestro conocimiento del mundo. La filosofía de Schopenhauer es en primer lugar un comentario acerca de las condiciones del conocimiento; una epistemología.

Een universitaire studie in de letteren leidt zoals iedereen weet nergens toe, behalve, voor de meest getalenteerde studenten, tot een universitaire onderwijscarrière in de letteren. [...]Zo'n studie is echter niet schadelijk en kan zelfs een marginaal nut hebben.

en la mayoría de las ocasiones la transmisión del saber es imposible, la diversidad de las inteligencias es extrema y que nada puede suprimir ni siquiera atenuar esa desigualdad fundamental

Man sollte keinen Sinn in Dingen suchen, die keinen haben", womit er sich, ohne sich dessen wirklich bewusst zu sein, die Schlussfolgerung von Wittgensteins Tractatus zu eigen machte: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.

What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

perhaps the most objective knowledge we have is of the primacy of pleasure—the absence of pain—as the motivating force behind our own and others' actions.

It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.

Mon boucher : «Monsieur Tournier, quand on vous connaît comme moi en vrai, on n'a pas besoin de lire vos livres, hein?»

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I am still learning." -Michelangelo late in his life.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

I think I could use a library," she answered finally.

Praxis is about applying one's knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions. It is related to the well-known phrase "the personal is political" espoused by many advocates of the second-wave women's movement.