Quotes About Knowledge

We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters.

far loro perdere la fede nella felicità come Bene Sovrano e far loro credere, viceversa, che la meta è comunque altrove, in qualche punto al di fuori della presente sfera umana; che il fine della vita non è il mantenimento del benessere, ma qualche intensificazione della coscienza, qualche accrescimento del sapere.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.

He was a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice. Once started, he went on and on—boomingly.

de abrir esta Puerta en el Muro? La respuesta, a todos los efectos prácticos, es Ninguno. En un mundo donde la educación es predominantemente verbal, las personas muy cultas hallan poco menos que imposible dedicar una seria atención a lo que no sea palabras y nociones.

Spiritual progress is through the growing knowledge of the self as nothing and of the Godhead as all-embracing Reality. (Such knowledge, of course, is worthless if it is merely theoretical; to be effective, it must be realized as an immediate, intuitive experience and appropriately acted upon.)

Aldous Huxley

It was the sort of idea that might easily recondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes – make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

Aldous Huxley

Sto powtórzeÅ" przez trzy noce tygodniowo w ciÄ…gu czterech lat, pomyÅ›laÅ' Bernard Marks, fachowiec od hipnopedii. Sze??dziesiÄ…t dwa tysiÄ…ce czterysta powtórzeÅ" przeradza siÄ™ w jedna prawdÄ™. Idioci! - Bernard Marks, Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good-good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole. We are playing a game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Do you remember what it says in The Book of the Law ? 'I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all.' Yes, I said slowly, and I thought it a bit daring; might tempt people to be foolhardy, don't you think? Of course, agreed Basil, if you read it carelessly.

Learn this, as we pass through the portico: Fear nothing; there is nothing you can know! And by these terraces and steps that gleam Wintry, although the summer night is hot, This—what we seek is never what we find! Life is a dream, like love; and from the dream If we may wake, we never find it what We would; for the wisdom of a mightier mind Leads us in its own ways To a perfected praise.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

MARSYAS:        Beware! Easily trips the big word dare. Each man's an Å'dipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the Sphinx, Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son, Even the adepts scarce win to one! The Thoughts—they fall like rotten fruits. But to destroy the power that makes These thoughts—thy Self? A man it takes To tear his soul up by the roots! This is the mandrake fable, boy!

22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Truth is Truth; and the Truth of yesterday is the Truth of to-day, and the Truth of to-day is the Truth of to- morrow. Our quest, then, is to find Truth, and to cut the kernel from the husk, the text from the comment.

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