Quotes About Knowledge

la conoscenza ha inizio con la demolizione delle illusioni, la de-lusione [Ent-täuschung]

Where the roots of Western culture … considered the aim of life the perfection of man, modern man is concerned with the perfection of things, and the knowledge of how to make them.

Our education generally tries to train people to have knowledge as a possession, by and large commensurate with the amount of property or social prestige they are likely to have in later life.

El conocimiento empieza con la conciencia del engaño de lo que perciben nuestros sentidos en el sentido de que la mayoría de la gente esta semidespierta, semidormida, y no advierte que la mayor parte de lo que cree verdadero y evidente es una ilusión producida por la influencia sugestiva del mundo social donde vive. Así pues, el conocimiento empieza con la destrucción de las ilusiones, con la desilusión.

Real conflicts between two people, those which do not serve to cover up or to project, but which are experienced on the deep level of inner reality to which they belong, are not destructive. They lead to clarification, they produce a catharsis from which both persons emerge with more knowledge and more strength.

The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount.

Our problem is to discover a principle of differentiation and yet relationship lucid enough to justify and to purify both scientific and philosophical knowledge by accepting their mutual independence.

Wer das Phänomen des Unbewussten nicht kennt, ist überzeugt, die Wahrheit zu sagen, wenn er das sagt, was er weiß.

The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room—and no need—for knowledge about God.

In children we often see this path to knowledge quite overtly. The child takes something apart, breaks it up in order to know it; or it takes an animal apart; cruelly tears off the wings of a butterfly in order to know it, to force its secret. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

a dificuldade da tarefa não deve ser razão para que nos abstenhamos de tentar conhecer-lhe os óbices, assim como as condições de sua realização

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neues aufnehmen und um keinen Preis Altes, immer wieder Altes weitergeben. Ich war hungrig, ich war kein Bäcker. Ich war wissensdurstig, ich war kein Schankwirt.

Um die Hauptsache nicht zu vergessen, bitte ich euch in dieser hoffentlich unverlierbaren Stunde: Vergesst eure Jugend nicht! Das klingt jetzt, wo ihr noch Kinder seid, recht überflüssig. Aber es ist nicht überflüssig. Glaubt es uns! Wir sind älter geworden und trotzdem jung geblieben. Wir wissen Bescheid, wir beiden!

It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?

Teadmine ei tee kunagi valu. Valu teeb vaid "enne" ja "pärast".

You can't know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death." - Paul Baumer

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